{"id":1273,"date":"2011-03-31T16:33:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T16:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/helping-hand-from-telus\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:26:14","slug":"helping-hand-from-telus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/2011\/03\/31\/helping-hand-from-telus\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping hand from Telus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TELUS has extended its offer of free long distance and wireless services to Japan for an additional month until the end of April.\u00a0 Since March 11th, nearly 40,000 calls have been placed since the introduction of the free calling initiative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Telus donated $100,000 dollars to relief efforts in Japan through The Canadian Red Cross Society and The Salvation Army.<\/p>\n<p>We encourage you to continue to be part of the relief effort by texting &#8220;QUAKE&#8221; to 45678 to donate $10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoing our part to assist in relief efforts in Japan is important for TELUS because this disaster is not only affecting some of our team members, it&#8217;s also affecting our customers and their families,\u201d said Jill Schnarr, TELUS vice-president of Community Investment and Engagement. \u201cThrough TELUS&#8217; text-to-donate campaign we can have an immediate impact on the organizations working tirelessly to help the victims of this terrible tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/TelusLogo.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10986\" src=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/TelusLogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/TelusLogo.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TELUS has extended its offer of free long distance and wireless services to Japan for an additional month until the end of April.\u00a0 Since March 11th, nearly 40,000 calls have been placed since the introduction of the free calling initiative.\u00a0 In addition, Telus donated $100,000 dollars to relief efforts in Japan through The Canadian Red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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