SaskTel Employees help their communities through TelCare
$17,625 Donated to22 Non-profits in Prince Albert District
December 18, 2008
SaskTel employees continue to contribute to their communities through the donation of thousands of dollars to a variety of non-profit organizations. This year Prince Albert and District TelCare will donate $17,625 to 22 organizations. The organizations are:
- Alzheimer Association of Saskatchewan
- Canadian Cancer Society
- Canadian Diabetes Association
- Canadian Mental Health
- Children’s Haven
- Dystonia Media Research Foundation of Canada
- Heart and Stroke Foundation
- LUPUS
- Maude Burke School
- Melfort and Unity Comprehensive College
- Mont St. Joseph
- Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
- Nipawin Donor’s Choice
- Royal Canadian Legion
- Salvation Army
- Scleroderma
- Seniors Transportation
- S.P.C.A.
- Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
- Tisdale Hospital
- United Way
- Victoria Hospital Foundation
“In so many ways, SaskTel employees demonstrate how much they care about their communities, and TelCare is a wonderful example,” Minister of Crown Corporations Ken Cheveldayoff said.
“Since 1950, our employees have donated their own money to the TelCare fund to help organizations in their communities across the province and SaskTel is proud to contribute to this unique effort each year,” SaskTel President and CEO Robert Watson said.
SaskTel TelCare is a volunteer organization of SaskTel employees who contribute money through payroll deduction. SaskTel matches 50 cents for every dollar employees contribute through TelCare. In 2008, the TelCare fund contributed $325,000 to Saskatchewan community organizations.
For more information, please contact:
Andy Tate, SaskTel Media Relations
Phone: (306) 777-4548
Email: andy.tate@sasktel.sk.ca
