Category Africa Briefs

LG launches social impact challenge for innovative community projects

LG Ambassador Challenge photo

Children with hearing and speaking challenges, young girls unable to attend school due to poverty, and youth aspiring to develop their football talents, will be among the beneficiaries of a social impact project supported by LG Electronics to transform lives and communities. The project, dubbed LG Ambassador: Social Impact Challenge was launched today.

“We are much better off with, than without EAC.”

Image of EAC flags

The EAC summit's agenda includes consideration of the economic, financial and social consequences Covid-19 on EAC countries, search for an agreement on a coordinated regional response to the pandemic; consideration of applications from DR Congo and Somalia to join EAC, and ratification of AfCTA.