Wataniya Telecom launches the Royal Number and a Smile Campaign

Driven by its social responsibility, Wataniya Telecom, Kuwait Red Carpet Co. has launched a charitable campaign from June 15 to July 7, for the benefit of Kuwait Center for Autism (KCA) where the total amount raised will be dedicated to assist KCA fulfill some of their requirements.

Each of Wataniya customers might be the potential lucky winner of the royal line 6666677; all they need to do is to donate KD1 by sending a sms with 'A' to 1430 where automatically they will enter the raffle. The more they donate the more chances they'll have to win the royal number.

Wataniya's initiative has been around two major spheres; to help creating the awareness about Autism since most of the Kuwait public are not aware of Autism or has a misconception about its definition; and to assist KCA to achieve some of its objectives, which on the top of them is to help preparing autistic people to integrate in the community.

"Through our support for KCA, we hope to raise public awareness of autism and help generating additional support to facilitate effective handling of it," said Scott Gegenheimer, GM & CEO of Wataniya Telecom... "As part of Wataniya's social responsibility program, we wanted to play a part in supporting Kuwait Center for Autism, to help them achieve some of their goals", said Scott Gegenheimer, GM & CEO of Wataniya Telecom.

In order to continue supporting the needs of the families and the children who suffer from Autism, KCA needs additional support as confirmed Dr. Samira Al Saad, Founder & Director of KCA.

She said, "As we thank Wataniya's endeavor, we hope it will be an example to follow by other companies in the private sector. When such famous companies take the lead it helps in spreading awareness about autism for large and different sectors in the society... Developing training and rehabilitation programs for autistic people requires recruiting more specialized staff and teaching techniques, which we don't have sufficient financial resources to implement; these programs are highly important to help children with autism and train them to be independent and most of all happy".

Wataniya counts on customers to take part in this humanitarian cause and incite friends and families to participate. While only one person can be the lucky winner of the royal number, everybody wins from the act of donation.

18/6/2008