Among its Corporate Social Responsibility programs

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(Free-Press-Release.com) November 23, 2011 -- November 23, 2011
AWAL, a leading information technology (IT) services provider in Saudi Arabia, has entered into a cooperative agreement with ‘Purity’ (NAQA), an anti-smoking charitable association, to provide a group of IT and logistic services to support the association’s anti-smoking campaigns across Saudi Arabia. The agreement was signed by Suleiman Bin Abdul Rahman Al Sabi, Purity Secretary General, and Abdul Rahman Obeid, Marketing Executive Manager at AWAL.

Commenting on the agreement, Abdul Rahman Obeid said, “This partnership is part of our CSR program and reflects our commitment to helping the Saudi community address the smoking habit. Recent studies show that more than 30 per cent of the Saudi population is smokers. Over SAR 1 billion is spent annually on smoking, which has become a bad habit among students and fueled by various social and work-related problems.”
‘Purity’ establishes specialty clinics that help smokers quit the habit, develops awareness programs on the harmful effects of smoking, and coordinates with local and foreign government and private organizations to share its anti-smoking expertise and initiatives
AWAL is fully committed to addressing social issues and sponsoring counter initiatives to expand its CSR program. A subsidiary of Saudi Telecom Group, AWAL offers a wide range of IT services covering, communications services, data centre services, consultancy, IT infrastructure and managed services.