Orange Foundation and World Vision Armenia announced the first results of joint charity project

Yerevan/Mediamax/. Today Orange Foundation and World Vision Armenia announced the results for the first month of implementation of “Let’s keep children home” SMS charity project.

This project launched on the 1st of June of this year gives the chance to every Orange customer to support Armenian children whose families due to financial difficulties cannot keep them home and deliver them under the care of state institutions.

By sending SMS to 1234 short number, Orange customers donate 100 AMD and by sending SMS to 5678 short number – 500 AMD. In June 2,265 Orange customers have donated total 481,500 AMD. As it has been announced, Orange Foundation in its turn will donate as much money as donated by customers all together, i.e., thanks to this money raising project Orange Foundation will transfer 963,000 AMD to World Vision Armenia, which will use this amount to help Ashot’s and Susanna’s family living in Ayrum village of Tavush region.

Ashot and Susanna have 5 children and due to household and social difficulties they have to deliver one of them, 15-year-old Lilit under the care of a night institution. The collected amount will be enough to enable the father of the family, who is a car mechanic by profession, to establish a small car repair workshop and to earn his family’s living, thus, providing the chance to Lilit to live and grow in her family.

“This is a project that brings us together with our customers for a good deed. The project will be ongoing, and this month as well we are expecting donations which will enable to bring tangibale changes into the lives of many other children,” said Nazareth Seferian, General Secretary of Orange Foundation.

The project will last 1 year during which Orange Foundation will regularly provide information regarding the donated money and the children and families who will be the beneficiaries of this project.