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More than six million HUF to the SOS Children’s Village contributed by Magyar Telekom, the Sustainability Media Club and Telekom’s customers
Budapest, January 14, 2013 10:00
In the December cookie promotion of Magyar Telekom and the Sustainability Media Club created by the company, members of the Media Club offered their own home-made cookies and cakes for sale. Telekom’s Christmas electronic greeting card is also works as a donation for the Foundation. The telecommunication company adds to that substantially, when handing it over.
The company’s promotion called „Giving makes you
feel good! Cookie promotion“ delivered nice results in December also this year.
Telekom’s associates and managers were also joined by members of the
Sustainability Media Club (FMK), participating not only in raising awareness,
but also baking the cookies. In a single morning, the voluntarily paid amount
for home made cookies increased to 800 thousand HUF. The cookie promotion being
already a tradition by now, was awarded the CSR Hungary Prize in November, last
year as a charity program model.
Anyone
wishing to use this year-end gesture or sympathizing with the possibility of
automatic cahrity could choose from numerous greeting cards in December on
Magyar Telekom website – with each greeting card sent 100 HUF was donated to
children in need.
With 5 million HUF added by Telekom finally Ildikó Kovács, the company’s communication director handed over a donation of HUF 6,037,695 to the Hungarian Foundation of SOS Children’s Village.
„The donation will be used for establishing a therapy room in one of our facilities in the Kecskemét region. Here individual psycho-therapy assistance will be offered to children, who need a special environment to treat their psychological injuries, including music or light therapy tools” – said Gábor Gosztonyi, managing director of the Hungarian Foundation of SOS Children’s Village.
“We attach special importance to the upgrowing generation among our charity target areas, moreover with this donation we can offer substantial help to children more in need than the average. The cooperation backing this donation makes especially happy, this success is not only merited to Telekom, as in addition to our enthused associates participating in the cookie promotion, members of the Sustainability Media Club also deserve special appreciation“ – said Ildikó Kovács.