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Empowering Learners in the community Volunteers took learners through new techniques of reading and writing skills which typically involved story reading, storytelling, story writing, drawing to tell a story and adult reading.

Refurbishing the Community Library at Apam in the 21 Days Y’ello Care Challenge On the 13 th of June 2016, MTNers launched its annual staff volunteering programme in the Apam community in the Central Region on the project named ‘’Refurbishing and Equipping of the Manford Cluster of Schools’’. Staff volunteers assisted with carpentry works, masonry, re-roofing of building, painting works and computer installation.

MTN Ghana Foundation The MTN Foundation is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) management structure for the MTN Group's related initiatives across its 22 operations. The MTN Ghana Foundation was established in 2007 as a single purpose vehicle to drive all MTN's CSR initiatives in the country. The Foundation currently has three focus areas – Health, Education and Economic Empowerment. Vision To be the benchmark for Corporate Social Investment (CSI) initiatives in Ghana and within the MTN Group Mission To improve the quality of lives of people through appropriate and sustainable corporate social responsibility interventions in communities where MTN operates. Funding for Foundation MTN’s global policy is to have a proportion of each operating unit’s profit after tax dedicated to undertaking corporate social responsibility activities. These funds are what the Foundation uses for its projects.  The Foundation is set up as a separate legal entit...

MTN Ghana Apps Competition Encourages Ghanaian Developers The MTN Apps Challenge Version 2.0 competition ended at a ceremony in Accra where deserving App developers in Ghana received awards for their innovative mobile Apps. In a challenge which has been described by the developer community as one of the most highly contested,   Buzztrick emerged as the overall winner of the competition. Buzztrick is a new and exciting social content aggregation and lifestyle app that is designed to enrich the life of the smartphone user with an alternative approach to how they access everyday information. The app keeps you up-to-date with all the day’s happenings, from the latest news and the hottest events, to the most exciting places around you. Buzztrick's advanced #tag based aggregation system enables you keep up with specific content that might be of relevance to you via the ”Channel” feature. The App was developed by   myApp Inc.   an organization established by a team of...

MTN and Huawei Launched the first NB-IoT solution in Africa MTN and Huawei jointly launched the Smart Water Metering solution, the first Narrowband Internet of Things (NB IoT) solution in Africa. The solution is designed to help MTN develop their NB IoT services to explore new markets. The Smart Water metering solution enables the automated collection of utility meter data, while manual meter reading leads to high labor costs and missing or inaccurate data. Through sensors installed in water meters, customers can identify water pipeline leakage earlier. Household water meters will automatically report data on a regular basis, reducing fault probabilities and the operating expense. Powered by the NB-IoT technology by Huawei, the sensor array is designed to serve as a diagnostic spine that underpins network management. The data gathered can be used to control waste water flows from each property, identify faults across the network and improve health and safety outcomes. Bab...

MTN Organizes Training in Digital Communications for Media MTN Ghana has organized a capacity building session in Feature Writing and Digital Communications as part of its Media Development Forum for targeted online media persons and select business journalists in the country. The Corporate Communications Senior Manager of MTN Ghana, Gina Fiagbenu who facilitated the program encouraged the participants to take full advantage of the digital space to reach more audiences and to expand their scope of work. She said MTN will continue to share knowledge with the media in line with its vision of leading the delivery of a bold new digital world. Kwasi Gyan Apenteng, a veteran journalist, member of Ghana’s Media Commission and President of the Ghana Association of Writers took the opportunity to advise the media fraternity to do more interesting features for media outlets. He said the additional angles they bring to stories can make them more attractive for the international audience. H...

BUILDING INNOVATORS From robotics and coding camps for school learners in Ghana, to the establishment of a technology and social hub for an organization in Takoradi the Western Region of Ghana, and the supporting of change making programs to train more youth entrepreneurs.