The new report includes targets, set in 2012, for emission reductions to be met by 2020, which are as follows:
Other achievements highlighted and disclosed in the latest report include, but are not limited to:
- In 2012, a total of 83 battery hybrid and nine solar hybrid solutions were deployed across Zain’s operations.
- A total of 4,500 handsets were recycled in Bahrain between 2011 and 2012 through the organization’s Handset Recycling initiative.
- Site-sharing was also implemented in 237 base stations across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Sudan, Jordan and Bahrain in 2012.
- 104 managers participated in Jordan’s Zain Al Khair Fund, a volunteer, employee-based initiative that provided Zain managers with the opportunity to donate money and support 92 families through the establishment of sustainable businesses.
- 200 thousand students in seven states in the Republic of Sudan have benefited from the Back to School program.
- More than 118 thousand people (including about 65 thousand students) enrolled in the e-learning program Taaleb powered by Zain Kuwait.
- Children’s Museum hosted Mobile Jordan for more than 45 thousand children from rural communities in the year 2012.
- Zain initiative to bring clean water to villages in the Red Sea state in the Republic of Sudan, benefited approximately 1.5 million people in the year 2012.
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Source: Zain.
About Zain Group
Zain is a leading telecommunications operator across the Middle East and Africa providing mobile voice and data services to over 44.4 million active customers as of 30 June 2013. With a commercial presence in 8 countries, Zain operates in Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and South Sudan. In Lebanon, the Group manages ‘touch’ on behalf of the government. In Morocco, Zain has a 15.5% stake in Wana Telecom, now branded ‘INWI’, through a joint venture. Zain is listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (stock ticker: ZAIN). For more information, visit www.zain.com.
