Airtel Rwanda celebrates Women’s Day empowering its women staff members

Kigali, Rwanda. March, 2016 – Airtel Rwanda today celebrated Women’s Day and hosted Access Bank officials, to talk to Airtel women staff about the W Initiative that advocates to transforming women lives financially.

The celebrations took place at the Airtel Headquarters and called upon Airtel women staff to take full advantage of opportunities that will help them achieve their long held dreams and aspirations in life through consuming banking products from Access Bank.

While inaugurating the celebrations, Airtel Rwanda, Managing Director Michael Nii Boye Adjei in his remarks encouraged the Airtel women staff to work hard and not let their gender be a hinderance in life.

“Encourage yourselves and each other to reach greater heights in life”, emphasized Michael Adjei

Cynthia Mutete from Women Banking Unit in Access bank, in her presentation also stressed that the W – Initiative was put in place to support Young Professional Women, Women in Families and Women in Business.

“A side from enjoying low rate loans, Airtel women staff with a recognized Access Bank Visa Card will access services like Salons, Shopping malls and Gym that are in partnership with Access Bank”, Mutete added

To benefit from the W Initiative one has to have any type of account with Access Bank.

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Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 3 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers. In India, the company’s product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed DSL broadband, IPTV, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had over 353 million customers across its operations at the end of January 2016. To know more please visit, www.airtel.com