THE G+D GROUP
Set up in the heart of the Great Rift Valley where resident communities had historically been engaged in inter-tribal clashes, the base station has helped to provide not only mobile phone signal but equally a link to emergency services, healthcare services and educational opportunities.
“The origin of our most impactful transformation stories is the base station,” Safaricom states on its website. “We now have over 4,000 towers connecting Kenyans from
Turbo to Turkana with each of these base stations having its own unique story to tell.”
Embodying social empowerment, these base stations merely touch the surface when looking at the true extent of Safaricom’s social impact, however.
Mobile wallet health service
M-TIBA represents a second flagship CSR investment from the company, a community tool created by a joint venture between CarePay, PharmAccess Foundation and Safaricom itself. Leveraging the trio’s respective strengths, M-TIBA today delivers healthcare solutions to more than 100,000 Kenyans via 60 key healthcare providers.
“We have also partnered with the government numerous times to extend more services to Kenyan citizens by digitising primary schools, connecting health centres, streamlining payments to farmers and much more,” the company continues.
“By working with Eneza Education, we are enabling over one million children to access interactive education material through the very simplest of mobile phones.”
The vast majority of these social investment efforts appear under the widespread umbrella of the Safaricom Foundation.
Kenya’s largest corporate foundation, it has helped to benefit over a million people via various disaster response schemes. This includes 830,000
Kenyans having received specialised health services through mobile medical camps, 680,000 children now learning in classrooms, 232,000 people having been empowered by community-based income generation projects and 172,000 Kenyans having been provided with clean and safe water.
“In addition, the Safaricom Foundation has planted over 5.6 million trees in community nurseries and in large scale conservation projects; constructed 181 classrooms and dormitories and 50 special units to cater for the special learning needs of children,” the company adds.
Now 10 years old, the Foundation’s total financial contribution to date exceeds Ksh1.8 billion ($18 million), funding that has been used to help address issues related to health,
The G+D Group was founded in Leipzig in 1852 by Hermann Giesecke and Alphonse Devrient as a company that specialised in printing banknotes. After their property in Leipzig was expropriated in 1948, and following the firm’s subsequent re-establishment in Munich, Siegfried Otto developed the company into a global technology group. Operating within the group, G+D Mobile Security has built its success in business through payment cards and connectivity since 1968, when it first patented the basic technology for smart chip cards.
The company also developed the first pluggable SIM cards and today, it manages over 2.9-billion SIM cards and more than one billion mobile devices worldwide.
As we navigate through a new digital age, a secure digital identity is essential to ensure complete transparency and trust in a connected world, where billions of people are constantly connecting with machines and devices.
“Securing the digital world adds a lot of complexity, and there are more layers and potential attack vectors that need to be considered when it comes to securing a connected car or a digital, tokenised payment card inside a smartphone,” says Jerusha Rooplall, the Managing Director of Giesecke and Devrient Mobile Security Southern Africa.
We are proud to be a Safaricom partner and adding this to our list of achievements. We have been a partner of Safaricom since 2010 and our business relationship has grown from being a simple supplier to that of adding value to the Safaricom brand.
Our slogan is ‘Creating Confidence’ - we do that through our many innovative products and solutions, as well as our long history and unrivalled experience in this particular field.
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