“Orange Cameroon is not just a company, but also a corporate citizen” –CEO

  Elisabeth Medou Badang, the CEO of Orange Cameroun has said the giant Mobile Tele-Communication outfit is not just a company but a corporate citizen as well. She was speaking in Kumba on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the Orange Kumba Branch on the Commonwealth Avenue on December, 2, 2015. She said the event marked the company’s commitment to the beautiful and ancient city of Kumba and to Meme Division as a whole. 

Elizabeth Medou Badang-CEO Orange Cameroun(Lady in dark glasses) sitting besides Koulbout Aman SDO Meme

 The event she said was of major importance to the inhabitants, particularly the women of Kumba reason for which she described Orange Cameroon as a corporate citizen. As a corporate citizen, she said the company has for the past fifteen years, been a major contributor to the economic growth of Cameroon and to its socio-cultural development.  She intimated that since its creation the company has invested, not only in the development of mobile telecommunications and internet network, but also in the men and women who have constituted the driving force of its growth over the years and that the company which is one of the biggest employers in Cameroon, provides hundreds of direct and thousands of indirect jobs.

 

CEO Orange Cameroon and Secretary General at the Kumba City Council

 In Kumba, the creation of this new Branch will generate about a hundred jobs she said adding that Orange Cameroon’s investments in network extension and the setup of new branches were an eloquent testimony to its constant determination to improve upon the quality of services offered to clients and a clear indication of the company’s undisputed presence in the country.  

Director of the Women's Empowerment Center Kumba at the inauguration of the Digital Training Center.

This new Branch the CEO explained will bring the services of the company closer to its clients and in this manner enable Orange Cameroon to effectively meet the client’s expectations of better quality services. The Kumba Branch she said is an ideal venue for discovering the broad range of offers and services:” from new data, fixed and mobile communications options, to special offers for professionals, entrepreneurs, small and medium sized enterprises. and our different tariffs plans; not forgetting, of course, our Orange Money service.  Also available here is a broad variety of phones, modems and accessories. 

In justification of her statement that Orange Cameroon is a Corporate Citizen, Medou Elizabeth Badang said in the southwest Region, the following had been done by Orange Cameroon.

The provision of Eighty-nine technical sites, eleven in Kumba alone, to offer quality coverage to the population;

eighty nine sites dedicated to 3G coverage to enable Cameroonians in this part of the country enjoy the latest technologies as do their counterparts across Cameroon; the availability of the 3G network in Kumba since October; a local partner based in Kumba and more than 20 accredited distributors in the Region to ensure availability of our products; two Orange shops in Kumba for enhanced proximity apart from the branch office; a shop currently being set up in Mamfe and one to be opened in the near future in Limbe; the Buea branch, inaugurated in 2012 and other shops to be set up in Mundemba and Ekondo Titi in 2016.

Through the Orange Foundation the CEO disclosed that Orange Cameroon had set up classroom libraries in seven primary schools in the Region, under the “Education for All” program.

The Orange Foundation has donated an ultra-modern microscope to the Kumba District Hospital to ensure better diagnosis of ailments,14 motor bikes to ease travel of health teams between remote locations in the Region during campaigns to diagnose and treat onchocerciasis and perform cataract surgery offered free of charge with the support of partners and supported the youth of the Region by sponsoring sports activities in general and football in particular, through holiday championships, with a goal to promoting their development.

Another important event of the day was the inauguration of a Digital Training outfit at the Women’s Empowerment Center in Kumba. This the CEO explained was to contribute to empowering women economically and socially through the appropriation of the benefits of digital technology. “This is the objective of the “Women’s Digital Centers” program launched by our Foundation last October and destined to reach 500 women across the country.  We are promoting access to digital technology for women and putting at their disposal equipment and basic software to enable them better develop and manage income generating activities.

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