IHS Towers Publishes 2021 Sustainability Report
Our 2021 Sustainability Report demonstrates our commitment to our wider stakeholders including, but not limited to, our employees, communities, suppliers, customers and investors. By providing communications infrastructure, we help facilitate digital inclusion, and through our four-pillar strategy, focusing on Ethics and governance; Environment and climate change, Education and economic growth; and Our people and communities, we seek to help improve the lives of those within the communities we serve.
Throughout 2021, we partnered with international and local organizations to deliver targeted programs with appropriate scale and reach.
2021 Sustainability Report Highlights
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total sustainability spend with approximately over one million people touched in$7.1 million Nigeria . -
Finalized our first Group-wide partnership supporting the worldwide Giga initiative; a partnership between UNICEF’s
Office of Innovation and ITU’sTelecommunications Development Bureau . Our three-year partnership includes a financial contribution and a contribution-in-kind to help strengthen Giga’s work to map schools and their connectivity levels on an open-source map.$4.5 million - Launched the Frontline Workers Initiative which offers the children of our frontline workers, and equivalent suppliers, the opportunity to apply for financial scholarships, funded by IHS, to top level in-country and international universities.
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Partnered with the
Rwanda Ministry of ICT & Innovation to fund the concept study of Africa’s firstScience Museum inKigali . -
Partnered with Save the Children to help provide 24,000 girls in Borno and Yobe,
Nigeria with access to education. - Deployed 87,923 batteries and sold 38,441 for reuse or recycling.
- Saved 360,482 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
- Under our Group-wide Generator Recycling Program, donated 36 generators to in-need organizations, including schools, orphanage and health centers. Approximately 270 generators have been donated since the program started in 2017.
For more information, please visit www.ihstowers.com/sustainability
2021 was an incredible year of growth for our company, and with that growth comes additional responsibility. However, it also comes with opportunity; the opportunity to deliver real change, broaden our reach and increase the number of people directly impacted by both our offering and sustainability programs. Thank you to all our partners, and we look forward to working with you in 2022 and beyond.”
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