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98 Lenovo Group Limited 2013/14 Annual Report
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REPORT
During FY2013/14, Lenovo announced a new partnership
with Plan International to support and fund its Open
Space Literacy Program, which aims to increase the
quality of education in primary schools around the world.
Founded over 75 years ago, Plan International is one
of the world’s top 10 NGOs and one of the oldest and
largest children’s development organizations in the world.
Plan works in 50 developing countries across Africa, Asia
and the Americas to promote child rights and lift millions
of children out of poverty. As part of the joint effort with
Plan, Lenovo will be donating a sum of US$115,000 over
a period of two years to equip 50 schools in Kenya with
new X131e laptops, which are built for education. Lenovo
devices will provide students with access to quality digital
educational content and, in return, help them transform
their lives and realize their full potential.
A Room to Read Social Mobilizer in India uses a Lenovo laptop
during a workshop with the program’s at-risk girls.
In 2013, Lenovo’s Asia Pacific/Latin America region
established an exclusive technology partnership with
Room to Read, one of the world’s fastest growing NGOs.
Lenovo donated US$400,000 worth of ThinkPad laptops
to support its Girls’ Education Program in India, Vietnam
and other countries across Asia Pacific. The program,
which aims to abolish illiteracy among more than 16,000
at-risk girls in the region, is facilitated by Girls’ Education
Social Mobilizers that used to lack the resources to
effectively run their lessons and workshops.
Since the partnership began, over 170 laptops have been
shipped, with more than 130 additional units to follow.
The introduction of this equipment has been hugely
beneficial to the program, enabling greater efficiency
and clarity of communication. Since receiving the units,
the Social Mobilizers have used the laptops in life skills
training sessions with at-risk girls, discussions and parent
meetings. Room to Read’s senior spokespersons also
use Lenovo ThinkPad technology as they travel around
the world to raise awareness about the organization and
its mission.
Lenovo delegation at the Women’s Forum 2013.
For seven years, Lenovo has been a corporate sponsor
and technology partner of the Women’s Forum for the
Economy and Society. The objective of the forum is to
highlight and enhance women’s contributions to the
economy and society and to provide new approaches to
issues.
Lenovo China’s investment in venture philanthropy, an
innovative approach focused on grass-roots NGOs in
China, aims to increase capability and skill building in
the areas of strategic planning, IT, HR and financial
management. Since 2009, 8.6 million RMB (approximately
US$1.4 million) in financial assistance has been donated
to over 33 NGOs across the country.