Supporting Digital Skills Development: Beeline Kazakhstan Adds New Secondary School to Award-Winning CSR Programme
September 02 2024 - 3:00AM
Amsterdam and Almaty, 2 September 2024 – VEON Ltd.
(Nasdaq: VEON, Euronext Amsterdam: VEON), a global digital operator
that provides connectivity and online services (“VEON” or the
“Company”), announces that its digital operator Beeline Kazakhstan,
through its Corporate Foundation Zhyly Zhurek, is supporting
digital skills development in Kazakhstan with the inauguration of a
newly-constructed secondary school with high-end technology
facilities.
The newly built school in the village of Shelek,
near Almaty, was opened on September 1st, coinciding with
Kazakhstan’s “Day of Knowledge”. The school will serve over 900
children and has been equipped with a state-of-the-art computer
lab, workshops, laboratories and sports facilities.
Beeline Kazakhstan’s Zhyly Zhurek corporate
foundation, which was established in November 2023, funded the new
school as part of VEON and Beeline Kazakhstan’s longstanding
commitment to supporting priority social projects in the country.
Zhyly Zhurek allocates 1% of Beeline Kazakhstan’s annual revenue to
CSR programmes ranging from supporting communities impacted by
flooding to increasing the country’s educational standards,
including equipping students in rural Kazakh schools with the
skills necessary for the digital economy.
"Beeline Kazakhstan has a long history of giving
back to local communities and investing in priority social
projects, and we believe that secondary education is the foundation
upon which future digital specialists and experts of Kazakhstan
will build their professional skills and knowledge. Zhyly Zhurek’s
school development project earned it the recognition of the
Eurasian Business Association of Kazakhstan for “Best CSR Project”
in November 2023 and we are thrilled to open the latest school,
which will help hundreds of children to take their first steps in a
modern and well-equipped educational institution. Our investments
create well-equipped environments for these students, boosting the
digital skills development of Kazakhstan’s future workforce no
matter where they are living," said Yevgeny Nastradin, CEO of
Beeline Kazakhstan.
Zhyly Zhurek’s programme has already invested in
the refitting of eight rural schools to the benefit of nearly five
thousand children across Kazakhstan. Beeline Kazakhstan not only
supports digital skills development but also creates job
opportunities for local technology talent through its AI, big data
and digitally focused businesses, including its IT company QazCode.
Through QazCode, Beeline Kazakhstan provides technical
infrastructure for training of the Kazakh Large Language Model
(LLM) which will support the development of AI products and
services in Kazakhstan.
Beeline Kazakhstan’s focus on education mirrors
similar initiatives by VEON Group companies, demonstrating their
commitment to digital skills development and creating inclusive
digital opportunities for all. VEON’s Beeline Uzbekistan partnered
with Astrum IT Academy in Uzbekistan in 2021 to help educate the
new generations of software programmers, big data analysts and
software engineers and as well as supports women in STEM. In
Pakistan and Bangladesh, Jazz, Mobilink Microfinance Bank and
Banglalink concentrate on digital and financial inclusion,
including for example in initiatives geared towards increasing
women’s participation in digital economy.
About Beeline KazakhstanBeeline
Kazakhstan serves 11 million customers with mobile connectivity and
two million with fixed internet services. Since 2018, the company
has been executing its digital operator strategy. Over the past
five years, leveraging its expertise in digital solution
development, Beeline has created an ecosystem of 60 internal and
external products, and serves a total monthly active user base of
11.6 million with its digital products as of June 2024. Beeline
Kazakhstan is majority-owned by VEON. The other shareholder is
Verny Capital, a major private equity company from Kazakhstan.
About VEONVEON is a digital operator that
provides converged connectivity and digital services to nearly 160
million customers. Operating across six countries that are home to
more than 7% of the world’s population, VEON is transforming lives
through technology-driven services that empower individuals and
drive economic growth. Headquartered in Amsterdam, VEON is listed
on Nasdaq and Euronext. For more information
visit: www.veon.com
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