In light of the recent cold waves sweeping through the country, Grameenphone has taken an initiative to distribute winter clothes and blankets among the affected people.
Grameenphone today distributed blankets and winter clothes among some 1,500 affected poor people at Ashrafabad High School, Matbor Bazar in the Kamrangir Char area of Dhaka city.
Erik Aas, Managing Director and Kafil H.S. Muyeed, Director New Business Division, Grameenphone participated in this distribution initiative along with about 45 GP employees. During this event, Erik Aas commented, “Every year, Grameenphone organizes and distributes warm clothes and blankets among the affected people. But this year, realizing the ferocity of the cold-wave, we decided to extend our support in different affected parts throughout the country. We look forward to contribute in the community in the future as well and thus live by our vision to help.”
In addition to Grameenphone's contribution, the company called for donations from its employees, both centrally and regionally. Through this initiative, Gameenphone and its employees donated and then distributed some 12,400 blankets and 50 cartons of winter clothes among the affected poor people across the country.
Since the northern region was the worst affected, this initiative's primary focus was Kurigram and Rangpur in Rajshahi division which is also a very economically challenged zone. In the other divisions, Grameenphone had distributed blankets among the poor slum-dwellers and floating people in these divisional cities.
The number of beneficiaries in Rajshahi Division was 5200, 1900 in Khulna, 1500 in Sylhet, 1200 in Barisal, 1100 in Chittagong and 1500 in Dhaka. Each of these distribution programs was directly organized by the Grameenphone employees while necessary counseling was sought from local government offices in identifying the affected areas and the recipients.
Kafil H.S. Muyeed commented that “we believe that Grameenphone should extend its hand wherever possible in helping the needy in Bangladesh. And this is no exception.”
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