MTN Foundation to spend $669,000 to establish ICT centres

Cape Coast, April 24, GNA - MTN Ghana Foundation, a body charged with the management of the corporate social responsibility of the MTN Telecommunications Group in the country, will build 10 ICT centres throughout the country before the end of the year. Each region will have one centre and emphasis will be placed on deprived communities.

To this end the group, which is working in partnership with the

United Nations Development Project (UNDP), will spend 669,000

dollars on the establishment of the centres and is currently in

consultation with the appropriate authorities in the regions to

determine suitable sites for the projects. Mr Frazier Malcolm Appeadu, coordinator of MTN Ghana

Foundation, said this at a day's workshop on proposal writing

organised by the Foundation for non-governmental and community

based organisations, chiefs, opinion leaders, health and education

workers as well as youth groups. He said plans were also afoot for the construction of a modern

intensive care unit for the Princess Marie Children's Hospital in

Accra and that the Foundation which focuses its activities on Health

and education, had refurbished the Maternity Ward of the Korle Bu

Teaching Hospital at a cost of $600,000. On the workshop, Mr Robert Kuzoe, Senior Manager of the

Foundation, said his office rejected some proposals written by some

organisations and communities for sponsorship because they did

not meet its format.