Vodafone Foundation marks 15 years in Romania, will invest over EUR 2mln in social projects this year

The Vodafone Foundation marks 15 years in Romania, having invested so far EUR 15 million.

The Foundation has implemented over 700 social projects to the benefit of children, the elderly, people with disabilities and poor families. The projects were carried out in partnership with over 600 NGOs all over Romania.

Since 1998 until the present, 4,000 Vodafone employees did over 26,000 hours of volunteering.

This year the Vodafone Foundation will be investing EUR 2.2 million into the projects that will be finalized by year-end.

These are two important healthcare projects: the construction of the most modern intensive care unit for newborn at the Marie Curie Hospital, and the renovation of the Center for Emergency Training in Targu-Mures.

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The new intensive care unit for newborns at Marie Curie Hospital was completed with an investment of EUR 1.35 million, in collaboration with the association Inima Copiilor.

The Center for Training in Emergency Medicine will be completed following an investment in excess of EUR 270,000 and will be dedicated to training personnel who will work in emergency units.

Still this year, the Foundation will launch the second edition of the program Mobile for Good which uses mobile technologies to improve the lives of poor, sick people or people with disabilities.

 Otilia Haraga