GP, Sightsavers Int'l partner to arrange free eye camps
Star Business Report
As part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Grameenphone (GP) will organise free camps throughout the country on regular basis to provide the hardcore poor with eye-care services. In this regard, the leading mobile phone operator signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) yesterday with Sightsavers International, a UK based organisation that works towards combating blindness in the developing countries. Under the deal, GP will organise free eye-care camps with Sightsavers International in different parts of the county. Kafil HS Muyeed, director of New Business Division of GP, and M Enamul Kabir, country representative of Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, Sightsavers International, signed the MoU on behalf of their organisations. "We will organise at least one camp every month which would cost us around Tk 6 lakh", Muyeed said. The deal was initially signed for a one-year period, but if everything goes right the project duration may be extended, the official said. Professor Syed Maruf Ali, line director, Eye Care at the Directorate of Health Services, was present at the signing ceremony held in Dhaka. GP and Sightsavers have been jointly organising free eye-care camps since March this year and so far they have arranged three such camps.
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Kafil HS Muyeed, director of New Business Division of GP, and M Enamul Kabir, country representative of Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, Sightsavers International, exchange documents after signing an MoU in the capital yesterday. Under the deal, GP and Sightsavers will jointly organise free eye-care camps for the poor. PHOTO: STAR |
