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| The Caretakers Orphans Education Centre recently won an award for a poetry competition. Here is the winning poem entitled "LET’S FIGHT FOR ALL CHILDREN TO GET THEIR RIGHTS":
What a piece of advice am making to you my child
Relatives and friends, please hear my cry
We all come from slums, am worried because of the children
Let’s fight for all children to get their rights
Should chew the chewing gums, throw away miraa
They are being killed, their minds have been distorted
Teach them to take soft drinks, in their hearts and minds
Let’s fight for all children to get their rights
When morning comes, its work and work till evening
Their dream disappears; they become weak in body and spirit
Children getting employed, no time to study
Let’s fight for all children to get their rights
This stanza is precious and worth to be
Cigarettes alcohol is unhealthy bhang cocaine is a crime
Drug is no good, chilling is the best solution
Let’s fight for all children to get their rights
All children should be taught to get education
They shouldn’t go against the rules, to break the laws in society
Teachers and parents to come out, to give them the best education
Let’s fight for all children to get their rights
I conclude my views, raising my flag high
My ink is over, put down your garment
Those inspired by this, I give you a credit
Let’s fight for all children to get their rights
The teacher who wrote the poem.
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 | Our continued growth in the Kenyan market has seen The Business Phone Kenya move to:
Craft Silicon Campus, Ground Floor;
Musa Gitau Road - off Waiyaki Way
Nairobi, Kenya
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You can contact us on:
Land Line: +254 20-2519600/1/2
Telkom Wireless: + 254 20-2346204/2494096
Mobile: +254 0719 262588 |
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The airtime equivalent of Martini – any carrier, any amount, anytime, anywhere – is now a reality in Kenya, as Paystream successfully launches its new market leading proposition to merchants. This provides merchants with ultimate inventory management – they just order a monetary amount, and we manage their inventory for them to ensure any customer of theirs can buy the airtime they want, for the amount they need, from their preferred carrier, at point of sale. Customers therefore enjoy greater security and convenience. No more tied agents – Paystream brings a solution which liberalises airtime sales, adds value to merchants, and contributes further to the yield we can earn from our terminals. Months of intensive effort to integrate and test with Safaricom, Zain, Orange and Yu, culminated recently in our first “live” transactions. Customers can buy eVouchers or a Direct Top Up – scratch cards can now be thrown away and consigned to the obsolete pile. Merchant feedback to date has been tremendous. This additional service, coupled with our card payment solution, already positions Paystream with a market leading proposition, as we prepare to roll-out even more value added services to merchants in the coming months. Exciting times for Paystream in its mission to Change the Way Africa Pays! |
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Written by The Business Phone
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Monday, 12 July 2010 00:00 |
The Business Phone is on the leading edge of business again and, moving with the times, it is engaging BritDAQ Ltd to automate our Company Secretarial work. Our share register will soon be kept by BritDAQ in electronic form; future announcements and updates to you will be by email in the first instance. This will save us a lot of money in mailing costs and share registrar services; it will also streamline our shareholder communications making them much more interactive.
For this we are going to need your email address once again. We know that some of you have already registered your details on thebusinessphone.com website (so that we have your latest details), but please take advantage of the new investor forum run by BritDAQ.
You may well find it rewarding to register with the forum. It's a place where you can get in contact with us and other shareholders to talk about our company, as well as with other private companies and their investors. You can even use it to get in touch with potential buyers and sellers of TBP shares!
Once you get to the forum, just click the ‘Register’ link in the top right of the page. To see the Business Phone section, click on the link to the “BritDAQ Marketplace”. Feel free to have a look around the rest of the forum. BritDAQ already has some other private companies up and running.
Once BritDAQ fully take over our share register, you will be able to view your portfolio of private company shares at the main BritDAQ site. This will be in place within the next couple of months; we will keep you informed and up to date about these exciting developments and all that is going on with our company.
Any shareholder wishing to invest further should call our Shareholder Helpline on 01747 858598 for an application form.
CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE BRITDAQ FORUM
Kind regards
The Business Phone Team |
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Written by The Business Phone
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 00:00 |
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As mentioned in a few previous newsletters, we would encourage all shareholders to register their emails on the website. This will allow us to send future newsletters and news items to you well in advance of them being sent by normal mail. Another benefit in registering is that we will then have your most up to date contact details for our records.
So if you have yet to register, please do so by clicking on the "Register" tab on the top right of the page.
You will then be asked to input the password which has been supplied in the posted newsletters. If you do not have it, please call the Shareholders' Help-line on 01747 85 85 98 and we will be glad to help you.
We hope you do take advantage of this service as we intend to utilise the speed and convenience of email much more so in future.
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Written by The Business Phone
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Monday, 28 June 2010 00:00 |
From east...
The Business Phone’s original East African office located in Nairobi which employs 11 full time staff will be on the move shortly to new offices in Westlands. We will be tripling floor space, storage and staff to match demand. The pictures below show the office being prepared in anticipation of our move.
...to west
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CEO Graham Gilmour spoke of the second new office in Nigeria: "It should go live in September 2010 and I expect similar growth in a very short space of time". Mr Gilmour has spent the last month laying the foundations for West African expansion.
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Written by The Business Phone
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Monday, 21 June 2010 00:00 |
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Monday the 14th June saw the successful completion of two back to back AGMs in order for the 2008 and 2009 accounts to be received (in addition to some housekeeping).
All the resolutions were duly passed, and the relevant documents will be posted on to the website shortly in the investor section.
We have special thanks to those who dug deep after the meetings to donate cash towards the Caretakers Orphange Fund. |
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Written by The Business Phone
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Friday, 21 May 2010 00:00 |
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The photographs below are a visible demonstration of the progress of the Business Phone's African model. They show the newly commenced construction work to expand our our technical partner TS3's technology centre in Dunfermline, Scotland.
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Written by The Business Phone
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Sunday, 16 May 2010 00:00 |
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Following on from the success with the banks in Lagos last week (at the AITEC West Africa conference) we will be speaking at the Card, ATM& Mobile Expo Africa 2010 in Lagos on the 15th to 17th of June 2010.
The Business Phone's presence at yet another prestigious event is a testament to the progress that is being made in the African markets.
Click here to find out more about the conference. |
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Monday, 03 May 2010 00:00 |
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The following recently published article gives an insight into the reasoning behind The Business Phone's strategy in Africa.
Source: Reuters
By Helen Nyambura-Mwaura. NAIROBI, Kenya, Fri Apr 16, 2010 - Kenyan mobile phone subscribers and revenues grew in 2009 but the average income per user fell, despite a higher use of data, statistics by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) showed on Friday.
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Written by The Business Phone
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Sunday, 02 May 2010 00:00 |
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Due to the enormous amount of work and new product offerings in Kenya and new territories, there has been a delay in producing our usual newsletters.
We expect to send the latest reports, accounts and details of the forthcoming AGM shortly. The last few months have been extremely hectic and more recently was not helped at all by the recent volcanic ash scare.
Don't forget to use the Shareholder Hotline (01747 85 85 98) or the Skype (thebizphone) link on the right for live updates and information.
Regards,
The Business Phone Team |
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