Ethio Telecom Expands Textbook and Charitable Support Nationwide

Ethio Telecom has launched its annual large-scale exercise book distribution and social support drive benefiting thousands of Ethiopian students and vulnerable groups, the operator announced today.

Under its “Hopes for Tomorrow” initiative, the company is supplying a dozen exercise books to each of 80,000 primary school students across Addis Ababa and regional states for the upcoming academic year. The program, themed “Hopes for Tomorrow,” represents an investment of 98.8 million birr.

Since the program began six years ago, Ethio Telecom reports it has reached 373,000 students in low-income communities, with total spending exceeding 320.8 million birr.

In addition, the company’s annual “Begonet” welfare program provided financial assistance to 39 charities this year, supporting 13,674 elderly people, children, mothers, and individuals with disabilities nationwide. Over the past four years, similar support has reached 32,700 beneficiaries across 117 institutions, totaling more than 78.8 million birr.

Ethio Telecom also organized a nationwide blood-donation drive in cooperation with the National Blood Bank. Staff and executives volunteered at 19 collection sites, helping to bolster emergency reserves under the initiative “Goodness for Humanity.”

Company officials said these programs are part of an ongoing corporate social responsibility strategy alongside the expansion of Ethiopia’s telecom services and digital infrastructure.