PTCL provides free phones to flood victims

Telecom company Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has provided 500 Free Vfone telephones to flood relief camps in Sindh and Balochistan.

According to a PTCL press release, people living in relief camps can now make free unlimited local and national calls to stay in touch. The donation was made during a visit to the camp at Lyari Polytechnical College by members of PTCL management.

They assured the people at flood camps that PTCL shares the ordeal of displaced people and is committed to provide assistance throughout the country and that PTCL wishes their early rehabilitation and safe return to their native places.

Telecoms pledge assistance

Various initiatives have been launched by telecom companies in Pakistan for the aid of the victims of the flood disaster.

According to a report on their website, Telenor Pakistan has pledged Rs. 100 Million in funding and telecommunication services towards relief and rehabilitation of flood affectees that will be used to facilitate immediate relief efforts and longer term rehabilitation initiatives by Pakistan Red Crescent Society.

Mobilink and Orascom Telecom have already pledged Rs 85 million for Flood Relief efforts. In addition, Mobilink employees have contributed more than Rs. 6.3 million through donations and funds raised through friends and family, their website reported.

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) had already donated Rs. 40 million for the flood relief activities by August 6. They recently presented a cheque for Rs5 million for the releief and rehabilitation of flood victims in Punjab to the Chief Minister of the province, Shahbaz Sharif, on September 19.