PM lauds Huawei CSR demonstrated in Lindi schools

01Mar 2016
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The Guardian
PM lauds Huawei CSR demonstrated in Lindi schools

THE Prime Minister, Kassim Majaliwa has lauded the spirit of social responsibility and giving back to the community exhibited by Huawei Technologies Tanzania Limited after the firm donated 25 Desktop computers and 25 UPS to five secondary schools in Ruangwa District, Lindi Region.

Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa (l) shakes hands with Huawei Technologies Tanzania Managing Director Bruce Zhang (c)

The phone company also launched the construction of a village dispensary in Nandagala within the district.The Prime Minister attended the donation ceremony, together with Huawei Tanzania Managing Director Bruce Zhang.

Speaking during the donation ceremony held at Nandagala village on Tuesday, the Prime Minister thanked Huawei, saying the computers will be useful in teaching students to communicate with the world through internet and the young people will be able to do business with the world.

Majaliwa said that Tanzania will continue to build on the good relationship it has with Huawei which has signed a pact with the government as an official ICT advisor.

“For the past 15 years Huawei is growing together with Tanzanians by localising Tanzania employees, it has transferred skills and technology to locals, so the country needs to get investors like Huawei who will come and invest in the country,” he said.

“We encourage other companies that do business in the country to have a component of social responsibility to show their goodwill to the people who contribute to their organisations’ business growth,” she said.

The Managing Director of Huawei Technologies Tanzania, Bruce Zhang said that investing in innovations, encouraging local talents through knowledge transfer, bridging the digital divide are not only Huawei’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies as a global ICT leader, but more of the obligation to Tanzania Society.

He told the Prime Minister that Huawei has been devoting itself to Corporate Social Responsibility activities for more than 15 years.

“Huawei’s contribution to Tanzania has empowered Tanzanians through ICT, including the construction of Tanzania National ICT Backbone and Tanzania e-Education project,” he said.

He said that Huawei transfers skills to Tanzanian employees, lots of them are top experts in the company and the firm has been giving lots donation to universities, schools and hospitals, as a gesture of openhandedness to Tanzanian society.

He said that the company believes that an enterprise can survive, sustain its growth, and contribute to society only if it consistently aligns its core values and operational responsibilities with its social responsibilities.

Currently Huawei has about 230 employees in Tanzania, of whom 155 locals and 75 are Chinese and other nationalities.

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