Released on: September 1, 2008, 2:09 am

Press Release Author: Fourth Estate

Industry: Telecommunications

Press Release Summary: Huawei Technologies, a leader in providing next generation
telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, today announced
a new Corporate Social Responsibility initiative in India. Huawei India has set a
corpus, which will be used for various CSR activities in India. The activities are
part of Huawei\'s global vision, ‘to enrich life through communication’.

Press Release Body: New Delhi, Huawei Technologies, a leader in providing next
generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world,
today announced a new Corporate Social Responsibility initiative in India. Huawei
India has set a corpus, which will be used for various CSR activities in India. The
activities are part of Huawei\'s global vision, ‘to enrich life through
communication’.

The first project launched under the initiative will support the education of
differently-abled children with a sponsorship of Rs 10 lakhs. At an event in Delhi
attended by Ms Sheila Dikshit, Honourable Chief Minister of Delhi and His Excellency
Zhang Yan, Chinese Ambassador to India, Huawei Technologies presented a cheque of Rs
10 lakh to Deepalaya, to extend its support towards providing employment skills to
disabled children.

The project will run for three years and Huawei will support Deepalaya for the
sustained development of differently-abled children. The project aims to create
large-scale awareness about disability, its causes and prevention. It also helps
prepare the children for a life of dignity to bring out their latent talents and
creativity by providing them vocational training and personality and life skills
training.

At the occasion, Mr Max Yang, India CEO, Huawei Technologies said, “At Huawei we
plan to undertake many CSR projects in India, and our association with Deepalaya is
a significant one. We want to contribute our share in the growth of the people and
the country and realize our vision of enriching life through communication.”

Also present, Mr T. K. Mathews, one of the founders of Deepalaya said, “Huawei
understands the needs of the special children and the need to lift them to the level
of individuals who can be self-sufficient.”

According to Deepalaya, people with disabilities remain un-represented and live in
conditions of severe poverty and isolation, without proper medical care, educational
or livelihood opportunities, or interaction with the outside world. There is a
two-way link between poverty and disability that creates a vicious circle. Poor
people are at greater risk of acquiring a disability because of lack of access to
good nutrition, health care, sanitation, as well as safe living and working
conditions. Once this happens, people with disabilities face further barriers to the
education, employment, and public services that can help them to escape poverty.

The objectives of this project, within the three-year timescale, are to:
1. Train 50 differently-abled children in the age group of 15-25 yrs from the target
locations in the spheres of vocation, life skills, talent and personality
development. These improved capacities will enable them to lead a life of dignity.
2. Depending on the nature of the training they receive and the improved capacities
and abilities of each trainee, they will be equipped for mainstreaming through job
placements, self entrepreneurship programmes and other efforts that can make them
self reliant.
3. Candidates who successfully complete their training programme will be placed
suitably in various sectors through Deepalaya’s Placement programme. The programme
strives to connect candidates with potential employers – especially employers who
are proactive about recruiting people with disabilities.
4. Under the project, Deepalaya will also motivate and educate the candidates and
employers on various National Awards in conformity with U.N. Resolutions. Each year
on World Disabled Day, awards are given by the President of India to the following:
 Best Employer of handicapped.
 Best handicapped employee and Handicapped Self-employed.
 Placement officers.


About Huawei Technologies
Huawei Technologies is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications
networks, and now serves 35 of the world\'s top 50 operators, along with over one
billion users worldwide. The company is committed to providing innovative and
customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and growth
potential for its customers. For more information, please visit www.huawei.com

About Huawei India CSR programme
In line with the core values of Huawei globally, Huawei India has actively
participated in the development of local community. Since its inception in 1999,
Huawei India has always been in the forefront, lending a helping hand during natural
calamities, funding education of under-privileged children.

Huawei India demonstrated its social cause when parts of India were ravaged by the
Tsunami in December 2004, speedily mobilizing over Rs. 12, 00,000/- towards relief
operations. Further as a part of Huawei Corporate’s initiative towards the countries
impacted severely by the Tsunami (Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India), Huawei
Telecommunications India donated Rs. 250,00,000/- in cash to the Prime Ministers’
Relief Fund, and emergency wireless access communication equipment worth Rs.
250,00,000/-.

Huawei advocates community development and encourages its employees as well in
contributing to the betterment of under-privileged children. In 2005, Huawei
Technologies India staff contributed half day salary towards funding of school for
the destitute children run by Parikrma, a Bangalore based NGO. In commemoration of
the international women’s day, Huawei employees contributed to the “education of
girl child” drive in association with Parikrma.

In its aim to support IT education in India, and more specifically in the field of
higher education and research, Huawei Technologies India has created the “Huawei
Excellence Award” scholarships in partnership with a premier engineering university
in Bangalore.

Huawei continues to lend a helping hand to various institutions for the differently
abled, organizing awareness campaigns and donation drives.

About Deepalaya
Deepalaya is an implementing organization, and was started in 1979 by seven socially
conscious individuals who felt disturbed by the sight of children begging at traffic
interjections. During the last 29 years, Deepalaya has educated over 50,000
underprivileged children and today it is educating about 12,000 such children
through its 5 formal schools, Non-Formal Education and Remedial Education centres.
Apart from education the Society renders its services in some other sectors also
namely, Health, Gender Equity, Institutional Care and Vocational Training.


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