WINNIPEG – In recognition of the impact of this year’s extensive flooding on Manitobans, including many MTS customers and employees, MTS today donated $50,000 to the Canadian Red Cross in Manitoba to support their flood response efforts.
Since the flooding began this spring, the Canadian Red Cross has been helping evacuated families in more than 40 communities across the province whose lives have been turned upside down by the 2011 flood.
"The work of the Red Cross in our community through this time of crisis has been vital in supporting thousands of Manitobans," said Kelvin Shepherd, president of MTS, in a press release. "On behalf of all of us at MTS, we hope this donation will aid the Red Cross’s relief efforts to help many flood affected families. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Manitobans who have been, and continue to be, affected by the flooding."
Over the past three months, MTS volunteers have spent hundreds of hours helping flood victims and MTS has donated dozens of FleetNet radios and airtime to various emergency organizations involved in flood mitigation efforts. MTS’s technicians have been working tirelessly to ensure that MTS’s network and services are maintained for those customers who have been experiencing flooding, and to restore service as quickly as possible where flooding has affected communities and individual customers.
