President Kabbah Launches Celtel ‘Build our Nation’ Programme

 

President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has launched Celtel ‘Build our Nation’ programme, which is geared towards supporting underprivileged schools in the country. The programme, which took place at the Miatta Conference in Freetown, brought together students from thirty five junior secondary schools and dignitaries from around the country.

Launching the programme, President Kabbah noted that corporate social responsibility should be adhered to by all private entities doing business, and according to him this is what Celtel has injected into their business plan, giving a helping hand to the educational sector. He used the opportunity to appeal to Celtel to continue giving a helping hand to the field of journalism, more so when the need to train Sierra Leone journalists is ever becoming a demand.

“Journalists need training to make them better”, President Kabbah noted. He said his government has been able to create the enabling environment for telecommunication to operate.

The President informed the audience about the setting up of a telecommunication commission to regulate telecommunications in the country, a move which marks a great departure from past regimes which did little or nothing to put mechanisms that would ensure telecommunication in the country was regulated. So with this commission it is mandatory for all communication gates to go through Sierratel.

The Chairman of the occasion, Dr. Julius Spencer, who also doubles as the Executive Director of Premier Media, considered the day as a very special one in the history of mobile communication in the country. Dr. Spencer said Celtel has continued to provide leadership in the area of communication since it started operations in the country.

The Managing Director of Celtel, Ted Sauti-Phiri revealed that Celtel will commit four hundred million Leones every year to the educational sector of this country, which support will go to junior secondary schools, mostly under privileged schools through out the country. He said a draw will be organized quarterly to select four schools, one from each region which will be supported with ten million Leones worth of school text books and other school materials.

He said Celtel as true partners believe the donation of books is the best way to support schools and to improve the educational sector of the country, and as a result the company will do all in its power to help the people of this country.

He revealed that Celtel has entered into a partnership with the London School of Business Studies and South Africa Business School.

Twelve of the twenty six managers of Celtel have been sent to South Africa to do some management courses in business administration.

Celtel continues to take the lead in telecommunication and making life better within the communities they operate. In addition to the above, Celtel has also completed the construction of a school in Kpotema, including dugout wells.

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