Tamale, Oct 26, GNA - Zain Communications Network, a mobile communications company on Friday donated GHc 2,500.00 to the Dakpema Educational Fund in Tamale. The Company also donated assorted Zain products to the Dakpema Traditional Council.

The donation is to support the Dakpema, (Chief of Tamale) to award scholarship to brilliant but needy students in the community. Mr. Philip Sowah, Country Director of Zain Communications said the donation formed part of the company's "Build our nations programme", which was a vital part of its corporate social responsibility programme. He said one of the core objectives of the Company was to create a sense of belonging with the people it served, adding that, it was as a result of this that, the Company had adopted a grassroots approach to developing education, health, arts and culture in the country. He said Zain had recently added its ground breaking borderless one network service to the "wonderful world" it had already created for it subscribers.

The Country Director of Zain said the service which was in-line with Zains commitment to provide superior, yet affordable services to its customers would offer Ghanaians the opportunity to communicate to the rest of Africa and the Middle East at local rates. He said Zain customers who would be performing the Hajj this year would have the opportunity of making calls from Saudi Arabia to Ghana. Mr. Sowah said the pilgrims would also get the opportunity to make phone calls and send text messages at local rates and also receive incoming calls free of charge.

Na Mohammed Alhassan Dawuni, the Dakpema stressed the importance of education and said it was for this reason that he established the education fund to support brilliant but needy students. He said, he however realized that there could be no meaningful education in an environment without peace, and had therefore initiated a peace process to bring the youth together to promote peace in the Tamale Metropolis.

He commended Zain for its commitment to the development of education in the country and called on other organizations to emulate the example. 26 Oct 09