Zain-Sudan wins award for corporate responsibility

KHARTOUM, April 11 (KUNA) -- Zain Group-Sudan, the mobile telecommunications company, has won first place award of the Social Responsibility Awards given by Sudan to companies that show commendable corporate responsibility toward societies in which they carry out their businesses.
Minister of the Sudanese Presidency, Salah Wanasi, presented the Award Shield to Zain Managing Director and Executive Chief Officer Al-Fatih Erwa, at a specially-held ceremony.
On this occasion, Sudanese Minister of Welfare and Social Security Mashair Al-Dawalab, congratulated Zain for winning first place, noting that the award is a recognition of the company's expertise, integrity, and transparency in its interactions with society.
She said that the winners of these Awards are considered a model for the private sector and they are partners to the ministry in its programs of education, health and fight against poverty, calling for concerted efforts to reach an integrated strategy and legislation in the work of community responsibility.
For his part, Erwa expressed his delight for winning the award, considering it a commendation on Zain's hard efforts to serve the community in the areas of education, health, the environment, projects' building, and integration of people with special needs in the community.
He said the company considered the sustainability of projects a key element in its strategy to achieve success by providing advanced communications service to all citizens throughout Sudan, stressing that Zain is committed to strict behavior in the application of transparency and fight against corruption and upholding human rights in their dealings with suppliers and business partners, and enforcing highest standards in employment including preserving the company workers' rights.
Among the numerous projects Zain has undertaken in Sudan, he listed participating in building schools, providing computer labs, offering daily breakfast meals to thousands of Sudanese students, taking part in building hospitals and clinics and in digging wells to extract fresh drinking water in addition to sponsoring large numbers of health awareness campaigns for the good of the general society. (end) hha.ajs