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Q1. What is MTN Foundation?

• In 2003, the Board of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited approved the establishment of a Foundation to manage the organisation's Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives across Nigeria. As a pan-African communications company with a large market in Nigeria, MTN felt it had an obligation to contribute to sustainable development initiatives that would improve the livelihood of communities all over Nigeria. It was against this background that the Board decided to invest up to 1% of its profit after tax annually in the Foundation, which was duly incorporated in July 2004 as a separate entity. MTN Foundation is a Company Limited by Guarantee, with its own set of Board of Directors.

Q2. What is the Mission of the Foundation?

• The MTN Foundation is committed to improving the quality of life in communities all over Nigeria by partnering with private, public, and civil society organisations to execute sustainable projects in Education, Health and Economic Empowerment.

• The Foundation's strategic direction is designed to address national needs, and its objectives are:
• To alleviate the health challenges currently facing the country.
• To provide access to educational opportunities.

To provide for and facilitate the economic empowerment of Nigerian citizens.

Q3. What types of intervention has the Foundation embarked on?

1. Health:
• MTN Partners Against Aids in the Community (MTN-PAAC)

• The campaign will be implemented in all geo-political zones and will involve:
• Awareness
• Voluntary Counselling & Testing
• Prevention of Mother to Child transmission.
• Future Project: Environmental Health – Model Waste management

2. Education :
• MTN SchoolsConnect : Provision of PCs & Internet connectivity to 24 secondary schools in Kaduna, Enugu, Lagos, Abuja, Kwara, and Rivers (plans to expand to other states).
• MTN/UNICEF Child Friendly School Initiative: Rehabilitation of primary schools to improve quality of basic education (starting with 3 schools in Bauchi, Delta and Lagos).
• MTN UniversitiesConnect: Refurbishment and provision of digital access and infrastructure to university libraries.
• Future projects: Education projects in line with the NEPAD agenda.

3. Economic Empowerment:
• Rural Telephone Project: Micro Finance scheme where rural women are provide with loans to acquire equipment necessary for them to run call centers businesses.
• Habitat Low cost rural housing project: Construction of 600 low cost housing units in 6 geo-political zones over a four year period for rural dwellers.
• Future projects: Farmer Empowerment Projects.

Q4. What are the objectives under the Education Portfolio?

• To empower through the provision of information and technology resources
• To enable skills acquisition, transfer and development
• To raise national literacy levels
• To provide educational resources for effective learning
To enhance educational infrastructure development

Q5. What is the MTN SchoolsConnect Project?

• MTN SchoolsConnect project seeks to support government's efforts towards addressing the infrastructural challenges being experienced in the Nigerian education sector in line with the NEEDS program.

• MTN SchoolsConnect project is a partnership between MTN Foundation and School Net Nigeria, whereby the following components have been provided:

• 21 computers (thin-client workstations) and a server
• A Networkable printer
• Furniture for the laboratories
• VSAT equipment and Internet connectivity bandwidth subscribed for 1-year
• Teacher training at a select location in the state for 6 teachers
• Technical training for lab attendants as well as selected local company from the state for technical support
• Insurance cover for 1-year
Retainer fees of the local technical company for 1-year.

Q6. Who is School Net Nigeria?

• SchoolNet Nigeria is a non-profit organization created to support effective and sustainable introduction of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into the teaching and learning processes within the primary and secondary education sector in Nigeria.

SNNG works to ensure quality educational content is delivered and USED through the introduction of authentic tasks in a project based learning environment to ensure TRUE learning experiences for Nigerian students

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Q7. What are the present locations and are there any plans for more?

• The first phase beneficiary States were Enugu, Kaduna and Lagos.

• Enugu State
1 College of Immaculate Conception
2 Queen's School Enugu
3 St Patrick School Emene
4 Govt Technical College Abakiliki road

• Kaduna State
1 Queen Amina College Kakuri
2 Kaduna Cap sch, Malali
3 Govt college Kaduna
4 Govt Tech college, Malali

• Lagos State
1 Govt College Eric More, Surulere
2 Model Sec Badori, Ajah
3 Awori College, Ojo
4 Queen's college, Yaba

• Phase 2 states are the FCT, Kwara and Rivers States.
FCT:
1 Government Secondary School, Tudun Wada
2 Government Science Secondary School, Pyakasa
3 Government Day Secondary School, Wuse II
4 Government Secondary School, Nyanya

Kwara State:
1 Government High School, Ilorin
2 Govt. Girls' Day Sec School, Oko-Erin, Ilorin
3 Okelele Sec. School, Ilorin
4 Government Sec. School, Afon

In Rivers State:
1 Enitonna High School, Borikiri, PortHarcourt
2 Government Girls Secondary School Harbour Road
3 Government Girls Secondary School Rumueme Port Harcourt
4 Government Comprehensive Secondary School Borikiri, Port Harcourt

Phase 3 is scheduled to take off in October in 3 other states.

Q8. What are plans to ensure sustainability of the project?

• The strategy for engagement with beneficiaries is Partnership. We ensure that our projects are not based on donor recipient relationship, but ensure the contribution of various stakeholders in partnership to ensure the effective deployment, appropriate use and sustainability of the project

• In the MTN Schools Connect project, the schools were selected by the state ministries of education who signed MOUs with the project, committing to financial sustainability of the labs through student levies. Students in the beneficiary schools would be charged between N300-400 per term after the first year to cover the recurrent costs including Internet connectivity bandwidth and insurance.

Q9. What has this project done to ensure that our teachers are effectively trained to use the technology provided?

• The teacher development aspects of this project is an elaborate 4 month programme which starts with a 5 day face to face training session. This then continues in a 2-week online discussion programme, which ensures teachers exercise what was learnt in the face-to-face session. This is then followed by collaborative project sessions in which they work on projects with teacher in other schools in Nigeria and other parts of the world.

• The trained teachers are also provided with materials to support their school based training where they are expected to train other teachers in their schools.