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Helping Thalasaemia patients   Grameenphone signed a letter of intent recently with Bangladesh Thalasaemia Hospital (BTH) on 24th December ’06 to address the problem of acute shortage of fresh, healthy blood supply as well as lack of wide awareness regarding this disease Like many countries across the world, a significant number of people suffer from thalasaemia in Bangladesh. But there is a general lack of awareness regarding this disease. Regular fresh blood transfusion might help a thalasaemia patient to maintain almost a regular lifestyle. But this is not as simple as said. Bangladesh suffers from acute shortage of fresh, healthy blood supply.
	Keeping in mind these two vital factors - lack of awareness and supply requirement of healthy, fresh blood - Grameenphone, as a responsible corporate citizen, aims to organize 3 blood collection campaigns every year among GP employees which will be donated for the treatment of the patients in BTH. The first of these blood collection campaigns was organized on the 12th December’06, where 46 Grameenphone employees donated blood during the event. On this occasion, Emad-ul-Amin, Director, Human Resources Division of Grameenphone, said that, "We hope that our efforts will encourage others as well to fight this deadly disease that claims numerous lives worldwide every year."
	GP launches development talk-show Grameenphone has launched a talk-show on development issues of Bangladesh in cooperation with Channel i. The premiere episode of the fort-nightly development talk-show Grameenphone Nayone Bangladesh 2021 was aired on the 8th December (Friday) at 6 p.m on Channel i.
In the year 2021, Bangladesh will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary of independence. In that context, the program aims to bring pundits and concerned citizens together to the discussion table to reach a consensus regarding a development road-map for the country. The first six episodes brought together a panel of experts who discussed their views on identified issues. The 7th and 8th episodes featured students from various universities giving their perspectives on education and health issues of Bangladesh.
	Distributing relief in coastal areas  As a part of its corporate social responsibility and corporate citizenship, GrameenPhone Ltd. extended its hand to help the storm-surge affected people n the Barisal Division during October ‘06.
Relief items were distributed among 3,000 most-affected families in five areas of Patuakhali, Barguna and Bhola districts under Barisal Division. Each received 5 kg of rice, 2 kg of lentil, 1 liter of soya-oil and a cash contribution of Tk. 300. A good number of GP employees volunteered to take part in this relief effort, which took place on 2nd October’06.