In 2007, MTN Uganda launched into a transformative journey with the launch of the 21 Days of Y’ello Care programme. This initiative was designed to empower workers to contribute on to their native communities, embodying the corporate’s dedication to company social duty.
Initially conceived as a singular inside initiative, the programme, which runs yearly from June 1 to June 21, has since advanced right into a collaborative motion involving a number of organizations and considerably broadening its scope and impression in communities.
This yr, in its seventeenth version of 21 Days of Y’ello Care, MTN Uganda workers collaborated with 35 organizations throughout numerous sectors, supporting tasks in 5 faculties: Kansanga Seed Secondary School in Kampala, St. Joseph’s Aid Society in Kyankwanzi district within the west, Ongongoja Secondary School in Katakwi district within the east, Bishop Dunstan Nsubuga Memorial School in Kalangala district in central, and Ariwa Secondary School in Yumbe district within the north. This marks the best variety of collaborations within the initiative’s historical past. Last yr, MTN Uganda workers partnered with 4 organizations, specializing in financial empowerment.
Bryan Mbasa, Senior Manager of the MTN Foundation, highlighted the strategic resolution to contain different organizations within the 21 Days of Y’ello Care program.
“We at MTN Uganda consider that we will solely make an enduring impression on the lives of many, offering them with instruments and sources they should thrive and succeed for a greater future by collaboration with organizations,” he stated.
“These organizations carry each monetary and technical help in areas the place we’ve limitations, creating synergies in our actions.”
These partnerships have offered alternatives for organizations that want to lengthen companies however could lack the sources to take action independently. For occasion, throughout this yr’s 21 Days of Y’ello Care, which prolonged to 30 days in commemoration of MTN Group’s 30 years of operation, American Tower Corporation Uganda partnered with MTN Uganda workers to offer eighty photo voltaic panels to Ongongoja Senior Secondary School in Katakwi district. MTN Uganda offered twenty totally put in computer systems with web entry and lighting for college students and academics.
The Maendeleo Foundation and Centenary Technology Services supplied digital and monetary literacy to learners, whereas Tecno Mobile established trainer useful resource facilities in 4 rural faculties. Roofings Group contributed 5 hundred fruit bushes to the 5 establishments and Faces Up performed an important function in empowering schoolchildren by inventive arts for psychosocial help in the course of the marketing campaign within the refugee settlement.
More different organizations together with Stanbic Bank engaged in offering scholastic supplies, profession steerage, menstrual hygiene, and basic expertise.
Samuel Mwogeza, Executive Director and Head of Private and Personal Banking at Stanbic Bank Uganda, expressed pleasure within the partnership with MTN Uganda for the 2024 version of “21 Days of Y’ello Care.”
“We are proud to have contributed to 2 of the 4 faculties recognized by MTN Uganda. Our partnership upgraded amenities at Bishop Dunstan Secondary School in Kalangala, together with the supply of reusable sanitary towels to help women’ dignity and the set up of seating to create a conducive studying surroundings,” he stated. “In Yumbe, we augmented MTN’s digital infrastructure improve with a solar energy system, making certain dependable entry to laptop amenities.”
Mwogeza additionally famous that they delivered monetary literacy coaching at Ongongoja Secondary School in Katakwi district, highlighting the advantages of reasonably priced medical health insurance by their Medi Protect resolution.
“This partnership embodies our dedication to driving constructive change and aligns with our imaginative and prescient, ‘Uganda is our residence, we drive her progress,’” he added.
“We congratulate MTN Uganda on the success of ’30 Days of Y’ello Care’ and look ahead to future collaborations that foster sustainable growth and group progress.”
Ssekitto Kalule Emmanuel, founding father of Faces Up, described being a part of the 30 days of Y’ello Care as empowering. “We had been impressed and witnessed first-hand the ability of partnership based on intentionality and repair,” he stated.
