TELUS Kits for Kids help students start the year off right
Written by TELUS
Thursday, 02 September 2010
Nanaimo students in need receive 200 backpacks filled with school supplies from TELUS Community Ambassadors
Nanaimo, B.C. – Nearly 8,000
less fortunate youth across Canada will quietly be handed a backpack full of
school supplies when they start school this fall, thanks to donations from our
TELUS Community Ambassadors.
Students in 20 cities throughout
British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec will receive TELUS Kits for Kids.
A total of 200 kits will be distributed to students in Nanaimo.
“It’s vital for students to be
equipped with the basic tools they need to learn,” said Jill Schnarr, TELUS
vice-president of Community Affairs. “For many parents it’s a struggle to find
that extra money to buy school supplies when they can barely cover the cost of
putting food on the table, and the TELUS Community Ambassadors Kits for Kids
program will help ease that burden for some. I’m proud of our TELUS Community
Ambassadors in Nanaimo and across the country who give where they live and work
tirelessly to make a difference in our communities.”
The TELUS Kits for Kids are tailored
to the needs of students in individual school districts from Kindergarten
through Grade 7.
TELUS Community Ambassadors have
prepared thousands of backpacks over the years, filled with binders, paper,
pens, pencils, erasers, glue sticks and other supplies, for economically
disadvantaged children in schools across Canada. More than 50,000 backpacks have
been distributed by the TELUS Community Ambassadors in the last 5
years.
For more information about TELUS
corporate social responsibility, please visit www.telus.com/csr
About TELUS Community Ambassadors
The TELUS community ambassadors
program is an essential volunteer element of the TELUS Community Investment and
Engagement portfolio. It complements the many other important initiatives that
collectively help us deliver on our philosophy to give where we live and deliver
on our brand promise – the future is friendly – in all that we do.
This important initiative brings
together current and retired team members to volunteer in our communities under
one unified, TELUS-branded program. It builds on the rich, proud and
decades-long history of community connection and volunteerism established by
former members of the telecom industry in North America.
There are 21 clubs in communities
across B.C., Alberta, Ontario and Quebec comprising a total of more than 1,900
current, former and retired team members. The TELUS community ambassadors are a
vital connection to the communities where we live, work and serve.
TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a
leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.6 billion of
annual revenue and 12 million customer connections including 6.7 million
wireless subscribers, 3.8 million wireline network access lines and 1.2 million
Internet subscribers and 228,000 TELUS TV customers. Led since 2000 by President
and CEO, Darren Entwistle, TELUS provides a wide range of communications
products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice,
entertainment and video.
In support of our philosophy to give
where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed $158
million to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered 3.1
million hours of service to local communities since 2000. Nine TELUS Community
Boards across Canada lead TELUS’ local philanthropic initiatives. TELUS was
honoured to be named the most outstanding philanthropic corporation globally for
2010 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, becoming the first
Canadian company to receive this prestigious international recognition.
For more information about TELUS,
please visit telus.com.
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