In March 2011, Tigo Rwanda officially entered into a joint partnership with the Federation of Rwanda Commuter Taxi Motorcyclists (FERWACOTAMO).

The partnership allows Tigo Rwanda to provide new, free branded jackets to about 10,000 ‘taxi motorcyclists’. The motorcyclists also have the opportunity to sell e-Go. This means Tigo Rwanda is now providing a revenue stream for the motorcyclists by selling Electronic Top-Up (air time) to their customers.

The customers will benefit from the convenience of having these products readily available almost 24 hours.

The revenue stream is one of the many, Tigo Rwanda initiatives aimed at empowering and delivering measurable benefits to local Rwandans by providing means to a steady source of income.

In remembrance of the ‘1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi’ on the 14th April 2011, Tigo staff members took hours of their busy schedule to visit an orphanage grouped under Itetero Association in Gacurabwenge sector, Kamonyi district.

The orphanage shelters more than 30 Genocide orphans mostly teenagers. Tigo staff members also offered a cheque and donations worth $7,000 geared towards improving the welfare of the beneficiaries.

Part of the money will also be used to boost already existing small-scale income generating projects run by the Itetero Association in Kamonyi district, which include livestock and beehive projects.

The visit was in line with Tigo Rwanda’s commitments to the social wellbeing of Rwandan people.

 “We care about children because they are the future. The assistance and commodities offered meant that someone will have clothes to wear, tools to cultivate their farms, food to eat, school fees and books,” Nina-Claudia Ndabaneze the company’s Marketing Manager said.

 As a global telecommunications group with operations all over the world, Tigo believes that telecommunication is a powerful tool for economic development. However the company also believes that with an effective social responsibility program, it can deliver high impact and measurable benefits to the Rwandan people.

KIGALI - A local telecom operator, Tigo Rwanda, has entered into partnership with the Ministry of Education to facilitate the rollout of internet access points in the country’s primary schools in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.
As part of the agreement, Tigo will sponsor the infrastructural development in schools across the country that will include wiring classrooms, installation of wireless LAN with internet access points and neighbouring communities will also benefit.

“The partnership was included in the 2008 Tigo license bidding deal to support the country’s development and OLPC was among them. We are now implementing the government’s vision of to transform the country into a knowledge-based economy by the year 2020,” said Tigo’s CEO, Marcelo Aleman.

The Ministry of Education will provide Tigo with a list of schools to be connected, according to the agreement.
“We welcome the participation of corporations in the integration of the technology in schools and this MoU will work as a link between schools and Tigo which should go stronger and more diversified,” the Coordinator of OLPC project, Nkubito Bakuramutsa said.

He added that the project has so far distributed 55,000 laptops in 108 schools, and the distribution will continue next year.

The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Sharon Haba, who was the guest of honour at the signing ceremony, said that internet connection to the OLPC computers will add more value to them.

“Every primary school is supposed to have these laptops but the first supplies were made to schools that have access to the electricity grid,” she added.
OLPC programme was adopted as a key driver towards the creation of a knowledge-based economy.

Tigo Rwanda, on Monday, joined other institutions in supporting the tree planting campaign that is lasting a week.

Tigo officials said that it is the company’s corporate social responsibility to support all national campaigns that can boost the country’s policies on the protection of the environment.

“As Tigo we have developed a corporate position on a number of issues including those which directly and indirectly affect our business. Protecting the environment is one of them,” Nina Ndabaneze, the company’s Marketing Manager, said.

On 30th April 2010, Tigo Rwanda team took the whole day off to visit Genocide orphans grouped under Itetero Association in Gacurabwenge sector, Kamonyi district. The orphans received over Rwf2.4 million from Tigo The ceremony was marked by Tigo staff sharing lunch, playing, entertaining the orphans and the signing of a Memorandum Of Understanding between Tigo and Uyisenga N’manzi.

The annual National University of Rwanda education exhibition sponsored by Tigo Rwanda took place on 12th 13th and 14th March, 2010 with students exhibiting activities from the different centre’s and faculties of the University.