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With the “It’s Your Community” programme, Telefónica O2 UK economically supports individual or group initiatives to promote positive change in the surroundings.
Social Initiatives in Europe
Telefónica Europe allotted around €4 million to community initiatives focussed, above all, onyoung people and education, to which each year it adds projects initiatives on health/disabilities and the environment.
With this budget, the Company helped sustain initiatives like the “It’s Your Community” programme, contributing over £1 million since it started up in 2007 (£362,947 in 2007 and £688,781 in 2008). It also supported associations like Irish Autism Action (IAA). In addition, the O2 Foundation continued its work in the Czech Republic.
In developing its community initiatives, Telefónica Europe was helped by its employees on a voluntary basis: around 1,000 professionals in the region dedicated nearly 6,000 hours to benefit activities in 2008. Some of them participated in 2008, for the first time, in Proniño's “Solidarity Holidays” initiative, a programme developed by the Latin America Telefónica Foundation.
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