The FINANCIAL — All of us have many responsibilities.
The FINANCIAL — All of us have many responsibilities. Taking care of the people we know and establishing relations with new ones helps make a healthy and thriving society. Being connected makes us part of one large family. Everything Geocell does is based on this idea of connectivity and social responsibility. Since the day it opened, Geocell has simultaneously worked to develop telecommunications and support and improve public welfare.
The company’s most important goals were set from the beginning – to have close ties with customers, to share common goals and to take into consideration what a customer may need tomorrow.
We want to demonstrate to society by example how a company should take care of its customers – by actively taking part in the country’s social and economic development.
Geocell’s social projects are directed towards the preservation of national and traditional values, the support of cultural events, the promotion of science and education, and the ability for all members of society to be actively involved.
The world offers numerous opportunities and these opportunities should be open to everyone. We believe that there should be no barriers for a person who wants to develop something new beyond what has already been done. Geocell breaks down these barriers by supporting projects for people with disabilities. These projects focus on creating equal conditions so that all people are free to communicate, study, work and develop.
Geocell’s project, “We Hear You” has, since 2006, offered a lower tariff for those persons who are hard-of-hearing, and have even employed some of them within the company.
Writer Natia Gogolashvili and photographer Ana Goguadze bring the life of a person with disabilities to the attention of many with Geocell’s assistance. Gogolashvili describes the everyday life of those with disabilities including the amazing things they are capable of in a column written for Geocell’s corporate newspaper. Goguadze uses the camera lens from the perspective of a person in a wheelchair. The message Geocell wants to send is that society should see beyond their own reality, and find out what humans are really capable of achieving.
But it is not only the disabled who need help. With the sum received from the auction of the golden numbers, Geocell helped establish a social adaptation centre for children whose parents are unable to care for them, along with assistance to the charity house Catharsis.
And in January 2003, Geocell took on a large scale project to assist the April 2002 earthquake victims. Owing to the generosity of the company’s subscribers and employees, several thousand GEL was collected, resulting in apartments for four families.
The company’s social projects envisage not only projects for the whole of society, but also to help individuals achieve their goals. By financing Lili Murtazashvili’s one idea, a model of Georgian culture, a traditional Tushetian rug was preserved. Many years ago, seven women led by Murtazashvili received financing from Geocell’s Osman Turan for their first enterprise. Today Tushetian rugs, as pieces of art, are being produced for Georgian and foreign visitors.
Geocell’s responsibility is to perform its duties on a daily basis, to take care of its customers, to be equally oriented on society and the individual. Join us and share our social responsibility.
