Vodafone Foundation news

• Mohamed Salah joins up with Vodafone Foundation and UNHCR as First Instant Network Schools Ambassador

  

  Footballer becomes Ambassador for school programme that aims to give a quality education to 500,000 refugee and host country students by 2025.

  25 Feb 2020 Vodafone Foundation

• Art students in Kenyan refugee camp amazed by live virtual reality ‘school trip’ to London’s National Gallery

  

  Students from Kakuma Refugee Camp were given a specially created live and immersive VR tour of London’s National Gallery, over 6,000 miles away

  24 Jan 2020 Vodafone Foundation

• Vodafone Foundation and UNHCR expand Instant Network Schools to benefit more than 500,000 young refugees

  

  Vodafone becomes UNHCR’s largest corporate partner for Connected Education to support delivery of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals 4 and 17.

  16 Dec 2019 Vodafone Foundation

• Vodafone Foundation Director Andrew Dunnett to assume additional responsibility for Vodafone’s sustainable business function

  

  Vodafone Group Plc have appointed Andrew Dunnett to lead the company’s global response to the SDGs taking responsibility for the company’s sustainable business function in addition to the Vodafone Foundations programme.

  04 Nov 2019 Vodafone Foundation

• Vodafone Foundation deploys teams of volunteers to provide much needed communications support to Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Idai

  

  Vodafone Foundation has mobilised two teams of trained Vodafone employee volunteers to Mozambique to provide communications support for the humanitarian relief programme following Cyclone Idai.

  25 Mar 2019 Technology

• Vodafone Foundation announces global plans for app to help those affected by domestic abuse

  

  04 Mar 2019 Vodafone Foundation

• Societal prejudice restricts girls’ access to mobile, global study finds

  

  Today, non-profit Girl Effect and Vodafone Foundation publish findings of the first comprehensive global study into how adolescent girls access and use mobile technology.

  11 Oct 2018 Technology

• VODAFONE FOUNDATION TO USE AGGREGATED ANONYMISED MOBILE DATA TO HELP PREVENT SPREAD OF EPIDEMICS IN TRANSFORMATIVE ‘BIG DATA FOR GOOD’ PROGRAMME

  

  The Vodafone Foundation this week announced a pioneering programme in Ghana to use aggregated anonymised data to help the government track and control epidemics to prevent widespread outbreaks.

  26 Feb 2018 Vodafone Foundation

• Vodafone Foundation Instant Network team deployed to area devastated by Hurricane Irma

  

  The Vodafone Foundation Instant Network is being taken to Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe to provide communications support in the areas worst affected by Hurricane Irma.

  09 Sep 2017 Technology

• Vodafone Foundation's pioneering 'Ambulance Taxi' service reduces maternal mortality rate by a quarter, new research reveals

  

  A first-of-its-kind ‘ambulance taxi’ service created by the Vodafone Foundation to save the lives of high-risk pregnant women in two Tanzanian districts the size of Belgium, reduced maternal mortality rates by 27% in its first year.

  22 May 2017 Technology

• Vodafone marks 10 years of the world's leading mobile money service, M-Pesa

  

  As Vodafone marks the 10th anniversary of M-Pesa, the world’s leading mobile money service, it was revealed that a record 614 million M-Pesa transactions were processed during December 2016.

  21 Feb 2017 Technology