The sound of hope will ring through the community of Mt Fletcher in the Eastern Cape today with the launch of the Vodacom Community Centre.
Vodacom is making sure the people of Mt Fletcher are no longer subjected to excessive costs of faxing, copying documents, Internet and e-mail access as they had to travel long distances for these services.
The centre will also enable the previously disadvantaged people of Mt Fletcher to make use of traditional telephony services.
Vodacom is offering these services as an extension to the community services telephony it currently offers to the previously disadvantaged areas. This also forms part of Vodacom`s continuous commitment to bridging the digital divide.
Violet Ngqayimbana, the owner of the new centre, said: "We anticipate that the centre will generate a positive response from the people of Mt Fletcher, who are keen to communicate with their friends, family, loved ones and the world using a wide range of telecommunications services.
"This centre is set to revolutionise this community with technology and information."
Vodacom had successfully launched community centres in Gugulethu in Cape Town, Thembisa in Johannesburg and in Makhado Municipality in Limpopo.
"This community centre will bring to the people of Mt Fletcher new technology and services which may be old, to exemplify fax machine, but new to them because they have never been able to access such services," says Mthobi Tyamzashe, Vodacom South Africa`s executive director of corporate affairs.
Tyamzashe anticipates that the Vodacom Mt Fletcher community centre will create new entrepreneurs who will help generate employment opportunities for the people of this area.
"We are proud to mention that the Mt Fletcher community centre will also help to teach the old generation about the Internet world and assist the unemployed to look for employment opportunities using computers," says Tyamzashe.
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