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2014/15 Annual Report Lenovo Group Limited
In FY 2014/15, Lenovo employees in the U.S. and Canada more than doubled their reported employee volunteerism
year-to-year, with 16,000 volunteer hours donated to numerous causes and charities.
In China, Lenovo has been a corporate sponsor of Enactus World Cup. This project encourages university students
to leave the comfort of the classroom to help improve lives in communities around the world. Enactus promotes an
entrepreneurial approach to development that empowers people to be a part of their own success.
In cooperation with the YouChange China Social Entrepreneur Foundation, Lenovo initiated the Lenovo Flipped
Classroom project to expand school tools and resources in remote areas of China. Lenovo has provided digital
devices to six schools and plans to roll out the project to more schools next year.
Lenovo also worked with the YouChange China Social Entrepreneur Foundation to organize the “Educational
Informationization Competition,” an event aimed at raising awareness of informationization in poor and remote areas.
Lenovo provided expertise to schools entering the competition and also sponsored prizes to competition winners.
In FY 2014/15, Lenovo Asia-Pacific continued its partnership with Room to Read, which focuses on raising the
literacy rate of girls, with further donations to support the program in Laos. Since the partnership began in 2012,
250 ThinkPad laptops have been deployed across India, Laos, Sri Lanka and Vietnam, helping Room to Read’s
operations staff and volunteers provide more than 16,000 at-risk girls with a basic education and a strong foundation
for future studies. This deployment will extend to Cambodia, Nepal and Bangladesh in 2015.
The donated Lenovo PCs have had a significant impact on improving Room to Read’s operational efficiency in
numerous areas including communications, program administration and monitoring and documenting the progress
of at-risk girls. For girls nearing the end of their secondary studies, the laptops have also been used for university
research and to assist in tertiary education applications. Lenovo’s technology contribution establishes a starting
point for future education opportunities, giving the girls career options that they otherwise would have lacked due to
poor information accessibility.
In Indonesia, Lenovo partnered with Relawan TIK, a non-profit organization, to leverage donated Yoga tablets
in furthering education in east Indonesia, where computer literacy is still low. The Yoga tablets were used in the
classrooms for presentations, teaching and to provide hands-on experience to the students.
In India, Lenovo announced two distinct initiatives in Pondicherry and Bangalore together with Guru-G and Agastya
International Foundation, respectively. Guru-G and Agastya International Foundation are two non-profit educational
trusts that seek to transform education in semi-urban and rural schools. While the initiative in Pondicherry seeks to
empower the teacher, the Bangalore initiative, called Lab-On-a-Tab, aims to provide students with self-paced, high
quality, hands-on education to supplement the existing teaching and learning methods at government schools.
These initiatives will be implemented by using technology from Lenovo to convert physical experiments into
e-experiments for the students. In both cases, government schools will be provided with Lenovo A-1000 tablets.
Based on the results from these two pilot projects, the program will be expanded to reach more schools in
subsequent phases of implementation. The tablets are pre-loaded with applications to enable teachers to engage
students through interactive learning.