SIERRA LEONE’S CSR SAMARITAN

Orange SL partakes extensively in corporate social investment, with such initiatives being a key pillar in the company’s role as a socioeconomic upholder. Some of these include, but are not limited to:

• Sponsoring the adoption of 50 Ebola orphans aged between 11 months and six year until their 18th birthdays in a three-year commitment.

• The provision of Ramadan Iftar donations to mosques and underprivileged Muslims around the country.

• Providing emergency relief to landslide/mudslide victims. This includes on-site food and clothes distribution and financial contribution to the Mudslide Victims Donation Relief Fund Account. • Raising Thinking Pink Breast Cancer Foundation awareness and running a fundraising half marathon.

Contributing to the government’s Free Quality Education Agenda is another of the company’s major programmes. Projects to be launched over five years under this umbrella include:

• $12 million investment for the expansion of 3G and 4G network capability across the country.

• The Super Coder Academy to train 100 senior secondary school students in computer labs. Working with 200 schools per year, over 2,000 pupils are expected to benefit.

• The provision of 10,000 hygiene packs for girls between the ages of 12-18 years for a period of five years.

• The running of an inter-secondary school competition for five years in which 500 schools in total will participate, the winners receiving new computer labs.

• Open Classrooms to provide 300 free certifying digital courses for 500 teachers.

• The deliverance of 1,000 solar pack kits to 1,000 off-grid villages. • An MOU and partnership with the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI) to launch the first coding school in Sierra Leone, costing LE2.75 billion ($308,000).