A dedicated team from Ooredoo has recently completed the first week of its 20th Goodwill Journey (GWJ) across Oman. The GWJ is one of the telco’s flagship and community-led Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives and connects Ooredoo and its volunteers with the most pressing requirements of members of local communities. It involves sustainable endeavours which have a significant positive impact on young Omani job seekers, women entrepreneurs, disabled people, hospitalised children, students, low-income families, and the natural environment.
This year, the team attended the graduation of fifty Omanis from the Wilayat of Muttrah, who took part in an Ooredoo-sponsored electrician training programme for young Omani job seekers. The next stop of the GWJ team was the Wilayat of Quriyat to open the ‘Little Innovator Hall’, which provides innovative school students with educational opportunities in technology. This stop also involved a tour of the Ooredoo’s Omani Women’s Incubator to take note of the latest developments.
In a remote village of the Wilayat of Rustaq, the team visited one of the schools where they donated several digital screens and tools to create a more conducive school environment. Next, the volunteers headed to Shinas to renovate the homes of low-income families. The team also visited Suhar to support local families in collaboration with Takaful Sohar by providing branded booths for SMEs owned by low-income families to display their products. At Sohar Hospital, the team inaugurated an Ooredoo-sponsored digital and age-appropriate entertainment space to support children receiving hospital treatment while distributing gifts to them.
At the Wilayat of Al Buraimi, the GWJ team of volunteers visited the Al Wafa Rehabilitation Center for the Disabled in Buraimi to open an ‘O Lab’ or the Ooredoo Digital Hall, which aims to enhance the digital and technical skills of people with disabilities. They also opened ‘O Labs’ at the Al Noor Society for the Blind in both Nizwa and Bowsher. In Ibri, the team contributed to the national ‘Ashjar initiative’ to plant one million trees and they visited the Omani Women’s Association. In addition, the team signed an agreement with the Manah Health Center to equip a smart primary healthcare hall with an interactive space that focuses on disease prevention and the promotion of public health.
Every year during Ramadan, a group of volunteers travels on behalf of Ooredoo across the nation to upgrade the worlds of communities and citizens by driving sustainable change. Celebrating two decades of making an effective contribution for good, the 20th Goodwill Journey consists of 20 different social initiatives across ten different governorates.
For more information on Ooredoo’s 20th Goodwill Journey and how to follow and contribute to it, visit www.ooredoo.om.