Vodafone Portugal has published a Social Responsibility Report where it details the use of 2.4 million Euros invested in the areas of health, safety, environment, education, culture and social welfare, among others by the Vodafone Portugal Foundation.

A detailed breakdown of the projects conducted by the foundation:

• One of the initiaves of the Foundation include the Paediatric Epilepsy Remote Monitoring in conjunction with the West Lisbon Hospital Group which endeavours to improve the surgical operations in children with epilepsy using mobile communications and a software application specially designed by Vodafone.
• The Safe Filling Station System, a spin-off from Safe Taxi System is conducted in conjunction with Foundation, the Ministry of the Interior, National Republican Guard and Public Security Police of Portugal.
• The Healthy Beaches project was repeated for a further year, serving 125 coastal or river beaches in 2007. The campaign planned to raise children’s awareness of safety and environmental rules on beaches. Still on the beaches, the SOS Beaches project, a partnership with Mafra Municipal Council was designed to provide rescue support facilities on beaches without lifeguards.
• The Valongo Municipal Council, Valongo Water Authority and the University of Porto’s Faculty of Engineering,  in partnership with the  Foundation are supporting the environmental clean-up of the River Leça and the improvement of its banks.
• The Mobile School Programme, a partnership between the foundation and the Innovation and Curriculum Development Directorate, helps to drive children of travelling workers (market traders, circus artistes and others) to distant learning school programmes wherever they happen to be.
• The Foundation also met the full costs of producing digital school textbooks for blind and partially sighted students through a project managed in partnership with the Ministry of Education and the publisher Porto Editora.
• The Association for Education of the Blind and the foundation continued to promote access to the new information technologies by people with special needs. To date, 1170 institutions have been helped and over 3700 people have been trained.
• The foundation pretends to cut the CO2 emissions by a half, by implementing sustainable technologies wherever possible, with base stations being powered from renewable sources.
• The company is also helping to raise the percentage of recycled mobile phones. It has 46 tonnes of phones, batteries and accessories in 2007, which is an increase of 21% over 2006.

The press release is available after the jump.

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