Other social projects

Alongside the activities of the KPN Mooiste Contact Fonds, KPN in the Netherlands, E-Plus in Germany and KPN Group in Belgium support a number of other social initiatives.
Besides the activities of KPN´s Mooiste Contact Fonds, there are several other social initiatives undertaken by KPN in the Netherlands, E-Plus in Germany and KPN Group Belgium. In 2012, we donated about 10 million euro to social charities.

The Netherlands KPN supports several customer groups that need extra help in communication, by providing services such as the “Teksttelefoon”, a special texting service for the deaf and hearing impaired. Besides this, in 2011 KPN supported “De Kindertelefoon”, which enables children and young people to call the agency free of charge on their mobile phone. The vast majority of the calls to De Kindertelefoon, 96 per cent, is made by mobile phone. We will continue to support De Kindertelefoon in 2012.

Along with our subsidiary SimPC, we provide elderly people with a computer with Internet subscription. This makes e-mailing and using the internet simpler for them. SimPC was specially developed for elderly people and consists of a user-friendly computer (the SimTouch), maintenance and support.

Germany E-Plus is a partner of “Digitale Chancen” , an initiative of the German Ministry of Economic Affairs. The foundation is developing a program to help people who have difficulty in adjusting to the digital society. The main target groups of Digitale Chancen are young people, the elderly and immigrants.

E-Plus partners with NABU, a German nature conservancy organization. Together, they have introduced a subscription that links raising awareness of nature conservation to a climate-neutral mobile telephone subscription. A proportion of the revenues will be channeled to NABU.

Belgium Together with five other ICT providers, KPN Group Belgium signed the Child Focus e-safety charter in June 2011. This foundation promotes the interests of missing and sexually exploited children. By signing the charter, content and internet providers undertake to make young people and adults aware of online risks. These ICT companies also want to offer young people a safe internet environment, make technical resources available and cooperate with police and the judiciary in the domain of internet safety.

The e-safety charter also focuses on commercial aspects: the six companies promise to approach young people commercially in an appropriate manner, so that they do not become victims of the lure of advertising. At the same time Child Focus started a helpline, which can be accessed via the website www.clicksafe.be, for everyone with questions about the online safety of children and young people.