Lafarge donates two primary healthcare centres to Ogun communities

TWO primary healthcare centres have been constructed and donated by Larfage Africa Plc to Batoro and Aruba communities in Sagamu area of Ogun State.

This is part of the company’s corporate social responsibility to its host communities.

The health centres were fully equipped to improve primary healthcare delivery in the State.

The company also offered free eye surgeries to 100 indigenes in Remo area of the State, while sanitation tools and materials such as hand gloves, dustbins, wheelbarrows, rakes, brooms, nose guards, sanitizers, among others, were handed over to the Sagamu Youth Council so as to ensure hygienic environment in the community.

The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Michel Puchercos, said the company would not relent in showing
commitment to education, health and safety, economic empowerment and infrastructural development in Nigeria, to its host communities.

He said a sum of N5 million had been earmarked for bursaries for 100 tertiary students in Remoland.

He said, “On our part in the last four decades of our strategic partnership and collaboration, we have continued to show our commitment to education, economic empowerment, health and safety and infrastructural development.

“Apart from being pillars, founded on the Sustainable Development Goals, it forms part of Lafargeholcim’s plan of guaranteeing a sustainable future for all.

“As always, our investments in CSR demonstrate our commitment to positively impacting lives. Earlier in the year and in line with Health & Safety as Lafarge’s overarching value, two health centres have been provided for the communities. To ease access to potable water, we commissioned additional ten (10) boreholes in various communities.

“In the area of education, several blocks of classrooms were renovated and furniture provided for twenty-one (21) public primary schools within this community. A hundred undergraduates also benefitted from our bursary awards while two buildings were renovated for the National Association for the Blind.

“In addition to these are skills acquisition programmes, programmes for the development of creative skills, computer/info tech training as well as coaching programmes for students of public senior secondary schools. We could not have achieved these modest successes without the support of RIDSCo and the good people of Sagamu.”