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24th September, 2009
Zain Links MVP Residents With Health Facilities
Zain Ghana and Ericsson have donated two toll free numbers, 30 sim cards and 10 fixed wireless terminals to the health centres and emergency services in the Millennium Village Project (MVP) clusters.
The items will help residents in the community to connect with on-duty health and emergency services and enable the health care and emergency services personnel to communicate free of charge.
Ericsson donated ten fixed wireless terminals which will be used by the health personnel and learning centers in the MVP clusters and the school that is involved in the ‘One Laptop Per Child’ scheme.
The two organizations expect that the donation will improve the quality of health care delivered to the residents of the villages by facilitating communication between the health care workers and the emergency services.
The fixed wireless terminals donated by Ericsson will bring the benefits of connectivity to the residents in the community and aid the educational, business and social development of the villages.
The telecommunications supplier has already donated 47 Sony Ericsson handsets to the health centres and there are plans to donate a further 22 in a few weeks.
In a remark, Philip Sowah, the Country Manager for Zain, told the Millennium Villages Project officials that “Communication is essential in every aspect of our lives, be it education, healthcare, economics or socially.
As corporate citizens, it is our aim to create a wonderful world in Ghana by developing rural communities, giving them the same opportunities as their counterparts in the cities.
Today’s donation is only the beginning of our commitment to the Millennium Villages Project”.
Jonathan Khan, the Ericsson Key Account Manager for Zain, said “Ericsson recognises that technology can be an effective transformational tool for the development of Africa and will continue to work closely with Zain and the Millennium Villages Project to provide communications technologies to help take the fight against poverty a step further.”
The donation is part of Zain and Ericsson’s partnership to bring cutting edge mobile technology to the Millennium Villages Project.
The collaboration is to advance Ghana’s achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of eradicating poverty by 2015 by lifting approximately 30,000 residents in rural Ghana out of the throes of poverty.
The telecommunication giants have built 2G and 3G mobile masts in the clusters and will launch a superior mobile network in the Millennium Villages in the near future.
The Millennium Villages Project, based at The Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a science-based bottom-up approach to lifting rural villages out of the poverty trap that afflicts more than a billion people worldwide.
The community-drive initiative currently operates in 11 sub-Saharan African countries where it tackles challenges related to health, education, nutrition, livelihoods, gender equality and other vital issues.
The items will help residents in the community to connect with on-duty health and emergency services and enable the health care and emergency services personnel to communicate free of charge.
Ericsson donated ten fixed wireless terminals which will be used by the health personnel and learning centers in the MVP clusters and the school that is involved in the ‘One Laptop Per Child’ scheme.
The two organizations expect that the donation will improve the quality of health care delivered to the residents of the villages by facilitating communication between the health care workers and the emergency services.
The fixed wireless terminals donated by Ericsson will bring the benefits of connectivity to the residents in the community and aid the educational, business and social development of the villages.
The telecommunications supplier has already donated 47 Sony Ericsson handsets to the health centres and there are plans to donate a further 22 in a few weeks.
In a remark, Philip Sowah, the Country Manager for Zain, told the Millennium Villages Project officials that “Communication is essential in every aspect of our lives, be it education, healthcare, economics or socially.
As corporate citizens, it is our aim to create a wonderful world in Ghana by developing rural communities, giving them the same opportunities as their counterparts in the cities.
Today’s donation is only the beginning of our commitment to the Millennium Villages Project”.
Jonathan Khan, the Ericsson Key Account Manager for Zain, said “Ericsson recognises that technology can be an effective transformational tool for the development of Africa and will continue to work closely with Zain and the Millennium Villages Project to provide communications technologies to help take the fight against poverty a step further.”
The donation is part of Zain and Ericsson’s partnership to bring cutting edge mobile technology to the Millennium Villages Project.
The collaboration is to advance Ghana’s achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of eradicating poverty by 2015 by lifting approximately 30,000 residents in rural Ghana out of the throes of poverty.
The telecommunication giants have built 2G and 3G mobile masts in the clusters and will launch a superior mobile network in the Millennium Villages in the near future.
The Millennium Villages Project, based at The Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a science-based bottom-up approach to lifting rural villages out of the poverty trap that afflicts more than a billion people worldwide.
The community-drive initiative currently operates in 11 sub-Saharan African countries where it tackles challenges related to health, education, nutrition, livelihoods, gender equality and other vital issues.
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