Vodafone supports phone charity

Vodafone is supporting Community Network by paying for a full-time person to do a two-month work placement with the telephone conferencing social enterprise.

Vodafone’s World of Difference programme is paying for Maame Oforiwaa Osei-Bonsu, who will undertake a research project how the NHS can save money by using telephone friendship groups for older people. The research will feed into a report for Community Network’s operation.

How telephone friendship groups save the NHS money

Maame Oforiwaa, who started her placement in March 2011, said she was grateful for the opportunity to help the charity and gain new research skills. She said: “I hpe to give Community Network a clearly written and convincingly argued explanation of how telephone friendship groups for older people save the NHS money. I am also doing some publicity and marketing for Community Network.

Vodafone's World of Difference project

World of Difference is an initiative set up by the Vodafone Foundation, a registered charity that has invested £100 million in charitable projects around the world since 2002. The programme currently operates in 14 countries.

In 2010 the programme is financially supporting 500 placements throughout the UK and eight placements for a year working for charities abroad.