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    ORANGE TO MAKE ACCESSIBLE ITS SHOPS TO PEOPLE IN WHEELCHAIRS

    http://armenianow.com/economy/it_and_telecom/35697/orange_armenia_accessible_shops_wheelchairs
    IT and Telecom | 16.02.12 | 16:55

    >From now on Orange Flagship store staff will have at its disposal
    a new and innovative device that will help them to assist customers
    with wheelchairs to enter the shop. Today Orange management, with the
    support of Unison NGO Executive Director Armen Alaverdyan, tested a
    special device in Orange Flagship. This device aims to make accessible
    to Orange customers those Orange shops, which, due to their stairs,
    are not accessible to the disabled and where it is not impossible to
    build ramps. To climb up and down the stairs the wheelchair is put
    on the device, which safely moves it up and down the stairs.

    Bruno Duthoit, Orange Armenia CEO, said: "We have 75 shops throughout
    the territory of Armenia, and majority of them are with stairs. We have
    built ramps in the shops where it was possible to build, in order to
    make our shops accessible to everyone. We target to make accessible
    to everyone 70% of our shops by the end of the year. We consider
    this as an important point in our corporate social responsibility,
    so we are doing our best to provide equal opportunities to everyone
    to benefit from our services".

    Before acquiring this device of Italian production, Orange Armenia
    has consulted Unison NGO. This device is considered as the best of
    its type.

    Orange Flagship at Northern Avenue is still the one to have this
    device, but some time later, after having feedbacks of the customers
    and shop staff on the efficinecy of the device, the company intends to
    equip some other shops as well with such device, or to find alternative
    solutions, such as mobile ramps.

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