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HUMANITARIAN AID FOR REFUGEES FROM UKRAINE
4iG PLC AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES SUPPORT PEOPLE IN NEED
4iG for Digital Society Foundation, 4iG Plc and its subsidiaries are committed to providing humanitarian assistance through their staff, services, and financial resources during this critical period. 4iG is supporting the activities of the Hungarian Interchurch Aid in Ukraine with HUF 10 million and is also contributing HUF 2 million to the operation of the Swiss Clinic mobile health center for refugees in Beregsurány. 4iG Group’s telecommunications subsidiaries are providing significant discounts on mobile communications with Ukraine, and Group employees have also been involved in the collection and delivery of donations.
4iG established its Foundation in
the summer of 2021 with the mission to enhance digitalisation and the
development of education. However, in this critical period, 4iG Foundation
for the Digital Society has chosen to provide humanitarian aid first,
because leading companies have a huge responsibility to provide the right
support to refugees in such extreme and often vulnerable situations as soon as
possible. The Foundation has therefore made financial contributions to help
those in need through the Hungarian Inter-church Aid and the Swiss Clinic
medical service provider, totalling HUF 12 million.
The Hungarian Interchurch Aid
provides immediate assistance to refugees and their hosts. By strengthening
their centre in Beregszász, they will be able to support tens of thousands of
people in need arriving in the region. In Lviv, they have set up a humanitarian
center and a warehouse to provide effective assistance to refugees arriving in
the region and to host helping communities there. On the Ukrainian side of the
border crossing in Beregsurány, food, tea, blankets, childcare items, shelters,
and mobile toilets are being installed to improve conditions for people waiting
for up to hours. They have set up crisis shelters in several of their
facilities in Budapest, Debrecen and Miskolc to temporarily receive and assist
refugees arriving in Hungary. In addition, the charity will deliver HUF 1 billion
worth of food, hygiene products, and childcare items directly to Ukraine over
the next three months. 4iG Foundation is supporting the mission of the
Hungarian Interchurch Aid with HUF 10 million.The Swiss Clinic, together with the Hospital in Uzsoki
street, will be involved in the provision of health care for refugees from
Ukraine on the spot: they will be on duty on the Hungarian side of the border
in Beregsurány from March 2022. In the mobile clinic medical examinations and
care to people in need will be provided with a HUF 2 million contribution from
4iG Foundation.
4iG subsidiaries and employees also support Ukrainian people in need
4iG’s telecoms subsidiaries: DIGI
Hungary, One Crna Gora, ALBtelecom, and One Telecommunications are supporting
people offering free services to facilitate telecommunication with Ukraine.
To support communication between
families, DIGIMobil will credit its subscribers for calls and SMS from
Hungary to Ukrainian basic rate phone and mobile numbers. These services will
be free of charge from 24 February 2022, i.e. retroactively, and will remain
free of charge until they are withdrawn.
ONE Crna Gora, together with two other mobile
operators in Montenegro, is providing technical support through the local Red
Cross donation line, where they can donate EUR 1 per SMS to help those in need.
The operator, part of the 4iG Group, will credit roaming costs for those in
Ukraine for the month of March and has reduced the bills of business and retail
customers for all calls, SMS, and MMS to Ukraine for this month.To the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ office (UNHCR) desktop computers
and laptops was donated by One to support the registration of persons fleeing
Ukraine to Montenegro and subsequent issuance of identity documents. One Crna
Gora secured mobile internet modems with free of charge internet subscription
to the refugees.
ALBtelecom
has removed tariffs for communication packages for Ukrainians in Albania, who
need to keep in touch with their relatives and offered free roaming for
Albanians in Ukraine. And One Telecommunications made its tariffs free
for its Albanian customers in Ukraine and donated a significant amount of items
deemed necessary by the Ukrainian Embassy in Tirana.
Invitech, one of Hungary’s leading telecommunications
and infrastructure solution providers, doubled the amount of funds raised by
its employees, donating a total of nearly HUF 1.4 million to the Hungarian Baptist
Aid. In addition, material donations collected by employees were delivered to
the crisis zone.
The two largest members of the 4iG
Group, IT companies and employees of the DIGI Group, will soon launch
collections to distribute non-perishable food and hygiene items to refugees
from Ukraine.
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Background information
The Budapest-based 4iG Plc is Hungary’s leading IT systems integrator with significant interests in the domestic and regional telecommunications markets. The company has been present in the market for innovative industry-independent IT technologies for more than 25 years. The company is continuously expanding its services and portfolio to meet the changing needs and demands of the ICT market. The Group employs more than 6,700 people. 4iG is a broad-spectrum solutions provider with significant interests in IT, telecommunications, satellite telecommunications, and telecommunications infrastructure development. The company, listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange, aims to build a dominant market position in a wide range of info-communication services in Hungary, Central Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. www.4ig.hu