19 July, 2006 

 

 

Girl Guides Association Receives Birthday Gifts

Local providers of traditional and next generation business telecommunications solutions, made presentations of cellular phones and a landline telephone instrument to the Girl Guides of Antigua & Barbuda. The Girl Guides Association of Antigua & Barbuda, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing opportunities for enabling girls and young women of Antigua and Barbuda to reach their fullest potential as responsible, productive citizens contributing to national, regional and worldwide development, was selected because of its distinctive 75 years of community outreach and a vital need for more efficient communications to support its ongoing success. Digicel, which donated a new cellular phone and service to the Girl Guides Association, established this community outreach as a way to resolve this charitable organization having access to the world through the latest communication technologies. APUA PCS and Cable & Wireless have contributed a new cellular phone and a landline telephone instrument respectively supporting the efforts to allow the non-profit organization to have access to current technology equipment while continuing their valuable community service work.  The cellular phone donated by APUA PCS was presented to the 19^th Antigua Girl Guides Unit of the Pigott’s Community while, with foresight, the landline telephone instrument from Cable & Wireless was presented to The Girl Guides Association to be installed at the Girl Guides Headquarters, Deanery Lane.

One of the top priorities on our movement’s wish list, especially on the occasion of our 75^th Anniversary, was a phone contact that could be included on letterheads and other Girl Guides communiqué offering a higher level of efficiency with today’s technologies. With the cellular phone donations we would be able to provide more immediate and efficient updates, information and service, and improve the flow of communication within the Association, as well as with our parent organization and donors, and enhance our community image. We are extremely pleased Digicel, APUA and Cable & Wireless assisted us in fulfilling one of our wishes.

Often nonprofit organizations are not able to allot budget dollars for equipment purchases and it helps to have companies such as Digicel, APUA PCS and Cable & Wireless that are heavily involved in the local community, and who are glad to be able to help us improve our operations. We are especially pleased with our partnership with the three companies. The Girl Guides Association can now be contacted at 7-2B Responsible Citizens of the World – 0 (722-7290).