$25,000 donated to orphans

$25,000 donated to orphans

JAKARTA (JP): PT Lucent Technologies Indonesia, a
communications systems and technology supplier, on Saturday
contributed US$25,000 to five local social organizations
dedicated to providing education to children from orphanages and
impoverished families.

In a statement made available to The Jakarta Post, the
company, the factory of which is located in Cibitung, West Java,
said that the organizations receiving grants were Dian Mitra
Foundation, One More Chance Foundation, Bintang Pancasila
Foundation, Nusantara Foundation and Hanifiyyah Orphanage.

In addition to the grants, the company also donated a $1,000
registration fee for a student of the Bandung Institute of
Technology who will represent Indonesia at the International
Young Scientist Forum in England in July.

"Caring for the communities in which we live and work is a key
element of Lucent's culture throughout the world," the firm's
president Michael H. Stoll said.

The grants, he said, would help 500 children currently under
the care of the five organizations, which provide them with
education and food.

The company supported the Hanafiyyah Orphanage last year
during a volunteer program it organized by spending time with 150
orphans, providing them with food, stationery, books, clothes and
repairing the orphanage's premises.

Lucent's plant in Cibitung installed some two million
telephone lines for state-owned telecommunications operator PT
Telkom and state satellite operator PT Indosat from 1991 to 1997.
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