Azercell joins «Solidarity camp» in Lahij

Press release

July 22, 2016

A country-wide social project called “Solidarity camp” has started in Lahij, a region with multicultural traditions and a motherland of coppersmithing, the art included in UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list.

“Solidarity camp” to be held on July 20-25 with the organizational support of “ASAN Volunteers” Organization, State Border Service, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan Automobile Federation, Regional Development Public Union and UN Public Foundation has brought together 60 young volunteers to conduct a number of social actions and events.

Azercell Telecom will take part in the project as the mobile communication provider of the participants and continue to provide social and information support throughout the event. In addition, Azercell Academy will carry out a training program for the volunteers, where Azercell representatives are going to give information about different ways of career development. Moreover, young volunteers will also be trained about the fundamentals of first aid, firefighting, rules of conduct in emergency situations etc. Participants successfully completing the training sessions will receive certificates and gifts from Azercell.

The project is aimed to improve the knowledge of young people with vocational and other skills, support the development of multicultural experience, develop the camping culture among the young, and promote social inclusiveness and activities in social responsibility.  

Lahij school children will also receive school equipment via “ASAN letter” under the project. They will also receive identification cards from ASAN service.

Azercell Telecom, the most active participant of wide-scale Social Responsibility projects in the country, is focused on initiatives related to the public and environment, and cooperates with public organizations in improving social well-being of the country.    

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Azercell Telecom LLC was founded in 1996 and since the first years sustains a leading position in the market. Azercellintroduced number of technological innovations in Azerbaijan: GSM technology, advance payment mobile services, M2M,MobilBank, GPRS/EDGE (mobile internet), 24/7 Customer Care, full-time operating Azercell Express offices, mobile e-service “ASAN imza” (ASAN signature) and others. With 48,2% share of Azerbaijan’s mobile market Azercell’s network covers 99,8% of the country’s population. In 2015, the number of Azercell’s subscribers reached 4,5 million people. In 2011 Azercell deployed 3G and in 2012 the fourth generation network – LTE in Azerbaijan. The Company is the leader of Azerbaijan’s mobile communication industry and the biggest investor in the non-oil sector. Azercell is a part of Telia Company Group of Companies serving 186 million subscribers in 17 countries worldwide with 27,000 employees.