Ooredoo sponsors Youth Initiative Award

Ooredoo, the fastest network in Kuwait in 2016, announced its sponsorship for the Youth Initiative Award, which recognizes volunteer and humanitarian efforts by youth in the Arab region. The award ceremony will take place on Saturday evening at the JW Marriot hotel, and is organized in partnership with the Arab Media Forum.

More than 640 projects from the Arab world will be judged by a special panel that includes a number of leaders in philanthropy in the region. The sponsorship of this event comes in tandem with Ooredoo’s core values of caring, connecting and challenging.

Commenting on the sponsorship, Mijbil Alayoub, Senior Director of Corporate Communications at Ooredoo Kuwait said “We’re happy to be sponsoring such an event that focuses on youth and their efforts. Our social responsibility strategy places great emphasis on youth, and we took it upon ourselves in the past to raise awareness about the importance of volunteering when we started our volunteer program two years ago. The program succeeded in attracting hundreds of young men and women in Kuwait who were eager to find volunteering opportunities.”

Alayoub added: “We have experienced this zeal and enthusiasm for giving and volunteering in youth before, and we strongly believe that youth in Kuwait have big ambition, and it is our role to support them. Our corporate social responsibility agenda focuses on supporting youth in different fields, throughout the year.”

The award ceremony includes an exhibition showcasing the efforts and achievements of more than 40 youth initiatives, local and regional, in addition to discussions and presentations by founders of humanitarian and volunteer initiatives from around the region.