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This is our Just Giving page for World Land Trust fundraising! A charity that works for the conservation of endangered environments is fitting for our company-wide challenge to going out into nature to Get UP Get FIT.

We would like to thank you in advance for any donations you can make towards our fundraising goal as this is an important organisation that works to save natural environment for generations to come.

We hope that together we can achieve more!

As a background to our Get UP Get FIT: CTE race on the
Digital Silk Road…

Covid-19 has created an unprecedented environment for living and working in Europe.  China Telecom (Europe) Ltd. continues to take actions to ensure the health and safety of our people, customers, partners and stakeholders. From the beginning, we followed the advice of local governments across our offices in Europe and arranged for all our employees to work from home as we wanted everyone to #WorkFromHome #SaveLives #StaySafe.

More than a year later, some European countries are starting to take tentative steps to open up. We continue to monitor the latest policies on the ground, as protecting our teams is obviously a top priority.

While our teams continue to work from home currently, we do our best to keep them healthy, both physically and mentally. One of the biggest issues that comes with the home office is the lack of exercise. The commute for many is just getting out of bed to their desk a few feet away.

Now, summer is upon us and we can finally spend more time outside, so we want to motivate our people to get out of their office chairs and engage in regular physical activity. In this spirit, we are launching the Get UP Get FIT: CTE race on the Digital Silk Road Challenge.

Together with our 300+ employees across Europe, we want to cover the distance from London to Beijing along our Digital Silk Road within 4 weeks. The distance covered is approximately 8,000 km. For this company-wide competition, our employees will be encouraged to participate in tracking their walks, runs, swims and more.

In addition, a special competition for families is integrated into the challenge. This is to encourage our employees to spend time with their families in getting up and getting fit with their partners, children and others they see as family.

So again, thank you for your support!

And we look to share the progress of the challenge each week, so stay tuned on our social media pages…