Omantel, the Sultanate’s leading integrated telecom services provider, has always focused on the future. The company feels that Oman’s younger generation is a vital foundation that needs to be solidified with future-centric skills as the country witnesses massive digital transformation.
The company’s Employee Engagement Department has successfully concluded the 2021 edition of the Omantel Summer Kids Program, an initiative first launched in the year 2015 to encourage knowledge, experiential learning, and innovation among children of its employees. This year’s program was held in collaboration with Engineering Village, an Omani youth organization working to spread the culture of innovation and passion for scientific exploration through experiments and practical application of theories.
The Omantel Summer Kids Program also aims to increase engagement among employees, enhance interaction and build a culture of collective growth towards a better future led by an aware generation of young Omanis.
Its core aim is to help children utilise their summer break productively by providing them with an interactive, entertaining and educational experience. The program focuses on future skills like coding and design linked to the telecom industry and the ICT sector as a whole and introduces participants to industry-related terminology. It has activities for the entire family like recycling projects, building modules and interviews of participants’ family member.
Najla Al Bahloli Senior Manager Employee Engagement said, “Omantel is very committed to its role as an enabler in Oman’s sustainable economic growth. At Omantel, people are our greatest asset, and the Summer Kids Program is a way of extending the purview of knowledge and expertise to their children. It is a program with high employee engagement and is guaranteed have an impact when these young participants step into the real world as knowledgeable and aware adults. We, at Omantel, are proud of being the building blocks for Oman’s future growth through a program like this, which also meets our objectives of promoting digital communication, sustainability and social responsibility.”
Omantel is the Sultanate’s first and leading integrated telecommunications services provider, enabling the digital society to flourish, allowing new ways of doing business and delivering a world of information, news and entertainment. While striving to ensure optimum customer satisfaction, Omantel plays a key social role to provide the required support and subsidy to all sectors of the Omani society.
Source: Omantel Press Release