At the request of MP Didier Martin, five digital tablets were donated to the EHPAD Les Opalines in Hauteville-lès-Dijon. This is part of the operator’s national plan for emergency engagement alongside people excluded from digital technology.
SFR Center-Est press release of April 7, 2020:
Solidarity commitment from SFR: sending of 5 tablets to the nursing home Les Opalines in Hauteville-lès-Dijon at the request of Didier Martin, Member of the Côte-d’Or.
On March 25, as part of the Covid-19, SFR announced an unprecedented emergency engagement alongside Emmaus Connect, the French Red Cross, the Ministry of National Education and Youth, and of the Hôpital de Paris-Hôpitaux de France Foundation, the attached press release of which specifies the procedures.
This commitment includes providing tablets and hospitals to hospitals across the country to help staff better manage patient care and enable patients to communicate with their families.
On this aspect, following the request of the deputy of the Côte-d’Or Didier Martin and the inventory with his parliamentary team of the needs in the EHPAD of his constituency, 5 tablets were given to the Les Opalines nursing home in Hauteville-lès -Dijon.
SFR press release of March 25, 2020:
Covid-19: SFR announces an unprecedented and urgent engagement alongside:
from Emmaüs Connect, from the French Red Cross,
from the Ministry of National Education and Youth,
and the Paris Hospitals-Hospitals of France Foundation
SFR equips and connects urgently 75,000 people excluded from digital technology thanks to the donation of 75,000 prepaid recharges, 20,000 phones and smartphones with unlimited calls and SMS, and 700,000 GB of data.
The Covid-19 epidemic and containment measures more than ever highlight the digital divide and increase the fragility of those excluded from digital.
SFR, founding partner of Emmaüs Connect for 10 years, is implementing an emergency plan to support major social players like Emmaüs France and the French Red Cross, by equipping and connecting 75,000 people.
SFR donates to 20,000 people in very precarious situations prepaid recharges including unlimited calls / SMS + 5 GB of data, valid for 30 days, as well as phones and smartphones. The goal is to allow them to phone and be connected to the Internet to carry out their essential procedures.
In total, SFR will give 20,000 prepaid recharges and 20,000 phones, including 5,000 smartphones, in order to equip and urgently connect these people for whom access to equipment and connection is essential.
While schools are closed and students must continue their education online, some of them do not have the necessary tools or connection. Following a call from the French Ministry of National Education and Youth, SFR donates 50,000 12 GB prepaid recharges to 50,000 students so that they can continue studying from home.
In addition, SFR will increase the connection of 5,000 people, beneficiaries of Emmaus Connect, an association dedicated to digital inclusion, by donating prepaid recharges including unlimited calls / SMS + 10 GB of data.
In total, this represents more than 700,000 GB of data provided free of charge by SFR, so that the poorest can telephone their loved ones, be connected to the Internet to obtain information, take distance lessons and alert the emergency services in the event of emergency.
SFR also provides emergency support to the Paris-Hospitals of France Hospital Foundation and healthcare staff through a call for donations to all its subscribers, as well as donations of tablets and SIM cards.
Partner of the Paris Hospitals-Hospitals of France Foundation for eight years, SFR is providing support in this unprecedented health crisis through an SMS campaign calling for donations. Thus, all SFR and RED mobile subscribers can make a donation of 5 euros, debited directly from their bill.
The funds collected by the Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris-Hôpitaux de France will be used in particular to finance tablets to help patients communicate with their families. This commitment is in line with that already taken by RMC, which belongs as SFR to the Altice France group, and which relayed since March 20 the call for donations to all its listeners.
In addition, SFR, in collaboration with the phone manufacturer Crosscall, will donate hundreds of activated SIM cards for a period of two months to the Hospitals of Paris. The objective is to provide telephone lines to certain destitute patients cut off from the outside world during this period of confinement.
Finally, SFR will offer hospitals across the country, first among which the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris, tablets to help staff better manage the reception of patients.
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