  
Aricent response to a Customer
survey by IONA contributes more than $5K to UNICEF
Aricent participated in a customer
feedback survey on IONA products and services, late last year.
For each response to the survey, the company made a charitable
donation to UNICEF towards a campaign focussing on mother-to-child
HIV transmission in Africa. The response to the survey helped
generate $5000.00 for UNICEF.
Gujarat Earthquake
- Rehabilitation Efforts
To provide relief and rehabilitation to the
earthquake victims of Gujarat, Aricent and its sister
companies, Hughes Tele.Com Ltd (HTL) and Hughes Escorts Communications
Ltd (HECL) worked out an action plan. While HECL deployed
VSAT phones in the affected districts to restore communication
links, Aricent and HTL made a contribution in relief materials
and funds respectively for providing immediate assistance.
To re-build devastated Gujarat, Aricent, HECL and their employees
mobilised funds amounting to about Rs.20 lakhs ($43, 478).
The contribution to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund was accepted
by the Union Minister for Information Technology, Shri Pramod
Mahajan.
The Aid Orissa Campaign
The Hughes-Charities Aid Foundation was founded
in October 1999 in partnership with CAF India, to rebuild
cyclone hit Orissa. Aricent contributed generously
to help build cyclone shelters in the Puri and Jagatsinghpur
districts in Orissa. These are used as schools by the villages.
Aricent and The Kargil
War Relief Fund
The Kargil War saw Aricent donate 17
Lakhs ($36,956) for rehabilitating the families of the deceased
or disabled soldiers. The contribution to the Army Welfare
Fund was handed over to the Union Minister for External Affairs,
Mr. Jaswant Singh.
The Send H2O Campaign
Aricent mobilized funds to the tune of
Rs.7 Lakhs ($15, 217) for parched Rajasthan in June 2000,
which had been hit by one of the worst droughts of the decade.
Apart from in-house contributions by the Aricent family and a
matching amount from the Company, we used the corporate website
www.Aricent.com to
direct contributions to this fund by committing Re 1 for every
hit on the disaster relief page on the website.
The funds collected were handed over to URMUL an NGO identified
with the help of CAF India to promote rehabilitation and relief
work in Rajasthan.
Later, our employee volunteers went and spent
time boosting the morale of the affected people and helping
them by having the artisans exhibit and sell their crafts
at a number of Aricent employee events.
Last updated :
December 15, 2005
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