Support for IICD by Spyker mobile phones
Mar 23 2007, Ghana [GH], Netherlands [NL], Livelihood opportunities
Spyker, the car producer of the exclusive Spyker cars, and Connect4, a Customized Design Manufacturer of exclusive telecom and consumer electronics, have handed out the first Golden Spyker Award to IICD. With the award comes a very exclusive mobile phone of pure gold and set with 26-karaat diamonds, the Spyker Jewel, which will be sold in May this year for an expected price of 50,000 euros. IICD will receive € 0,50 for each Spyker mobile telephone sold.
The origin of the Golden Spyker Award dates
back to 1898 when the Spyker brothers presented a Golden Carriage to
Queen Wilhelmina. As of this year Connect4 and Spyker Cars will each
year hand out a Golden Spyker Award to a charity organisation that
helps to reduce poverty in developing countries. The Award was handed
out to H.R.H. Bernhard van Oranje, member of the Board of Trustees of
IICD, at the launch of the Spyker Mobile line, mid December in
Zeewolde.
With the initiative Spyker Cars and Connect4 hope to increase the awareness of their customers for less privileged people in developing countries and to contribute to sustainable development.
The first Spyker Jewel phone, the C8 Laviolette Jewel, will be handed out to the first buyer of a Spyker Laviolette car at the Mobile of the Year event in May this year. The C8 Laviolette Jewel will be produced in a limited edition of 20,000 copies. The normal edition of the phone is for sale at all Telecombination agencies and all stores of Mediamarket in the Netherlands.
The benefits of the Golden Spyker Award will be invested in the Market Information Service Facility and Training Project in Ghana which is supported by IICD.