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About Vodafone Foundation
     
The Vodafone Portugal Foundation is an endowed, not-for-profit institution with independent legal personality, established to promote the development of the Information Society and combat info-exclusion.

Established in April 2001 by the Board of Directors of Vodafone Portugal, initially under the name Telecel Vodafone Foundation for the Development of the Information Society, it was the third foundation to be set up within the Vodafone Group. In September 2003 it adopted its present name: the Vodafone Portugal Foundation.


The first projects (HAL Screen Reader + Voice Synthesiser for blind and visually impaired people and SMS Blood Donor) were started in early 2003. Since then, the Vodafone Portugal Foundation’s field of action has broadened: the Environment, Health and Safety are among the areas where the Foundation has been active in supporting socially worthwhile projects such as the Healthy Beach Project, the Safe Taxi System and Floresta + Verde, among others. These are large scale initiatives that involve an increasingly large financial investment in the supported projects. During its first operating year (the financial year 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004), the Foundation made total donations of approximately 832,000 euros to 12 national scale projects, rising to the period of April 2009 to March 2010 to a total of 22 projects, some of them having begun in earlier years, accounting for approximately 2,3 million euros.

The Vodafone Portugal Foundation is managed by the following bodies:

  • Board of Trustees: Consists of 9 members, including the Chairman of the Vodafone Portugal Foundation who appoints the other 8 members;
  • Audit Committee: Consists of 3 members, chaired by a Certified Auditor. One of the other two members is appointed by the President of the Foundation and the other by the Board of Management;
  • Executive Committee: Consists of 3 members appointed by the Board of Management.