For the third year in row, within the program "Custom of Love", COSMOTE Romania will offer in 2011 a substantial amount of money obtained from the SMS that were sent during the New Year’s Eve to non-governmental organizations and associations which offer nursing, counselling and educational services for sick or underprivileged children.
"The appeal to send SMSes on The New Year’s Eve addressed to our customers in December 2010 had a great success, therefore we have the pleasure to announce that the amount of money that we will offer to the eligible non-profit organizations is 45,000 euro for the most representative projects addressed to children", stated Ruxandra Voda (photo), Corporate Affairs Manager at COSMOTE Romania.
In order to be eligible for receiving from COSMOTE Romania an amount of money within "Custom of Love" program, the organizations must fulfil all the following selection criteria:
1. to have been created and to work according to the Romanian legislation
2. at least three years experience in the field
3. to be able to prove, at the request of COSMOTE Romania, the geographical and social reach (the number of children that they care for in the fields of education, healthcare or underprivileged children)
4. to be able to prove at least three educational, care and/or counselling of sick or underprivileged children projects till present.
5. to have in development partnerships with Children Care Institutions.
COSMOTE Romania invites the eligible non-governmental organizations to download the application form starting today, 17th of February from COSMOTE site to fill it in and send it to csr@cosmote.ro by March 3rd 2011.
COSMOTE will select from the organizations that applied, according to the presented criteria, a number of 9 NGOs, and each will receive a sponsorship of 5,000 euro for supporting educational, healthcare and/or counselling of sick or underprivileged children during 2011. The selected winners that will receive the support from COSMOTE will be announced in first half of March 2011 on www.cosmote.ro.
"Custom of Love" is a program inspired from a CSR initiative launched in 1999 by COSMOTE Group and which enjoys great popularity among clients. In Greece, since the program has been launched, the Group offered support so far to almost 20 organizations with programs addressed to the children.
COSMOTE partnered with the most important non-profit organizations addressed to children from Romania since they have launched the commercial operations and they also finalized a few important projects until present. Every year, COSMOTE employees are active in different activities for the children’s benefit. Some of the most important partnerships since now include projects with Child Telephone Association, Save the Children – the project A Safer Internet, UNICEF, the partnership with Red Cross to act in case of disasters, the opening of the humanitarian SMS lines to accumulate funds etc.
