The
Anambra State government has partnered Etisalat Nigeria as the state, has
adopted Oraukwu Community Secondary School in Idemili-North Local Government Area
of Anambra State, South -East Nigeria under its Corporate Social
Responsibility-based Adopt-a-School initiative, reports ITRealms.
The
Etisalat Adopt-a-School initiative avails pupils and students in government-owned
primary and secondary schools access to qualitative education with access to a
range of modern education facilities.
Speaking
on the new development, Director, Regulatory and Corporate Social Responsibility,
Etisalat Nigeria, Ikenna Ikeme, said the telecoms firm is glad to add a new
school to the growing list of schools under its Adopt-a-School Programme, just
as he commended the education authorities in the state for choosing to partner
with the company for the development of the younger generation through access
to qualitative education.
Ikeme
also added that the initiative is borne out of the company’s commitment to
leverage the potentials of quality education to drive the sustainable development
programme of the nation. “In Etisalat, we recognize the fact that education is
the bedrock of any meaningful development; that is why we have made education
one of our three CSR platforms.”
“The initiative is aimed at
providing an environment conducive for learning which will bring out the best
in our pupils. We are committed to driving sustainable
development and one of the key platforms on which that can be achieved is
education. Like our other adopted schools, we will
implement key components that will ensure sustainable impact on the quality of
education in Oraukwu Community Secondary School,” he said.
Under
the Adopt-a-School initiative, Etisalat has renovated class rooms and toilets,
provided clean water, internet facilities, furniture, laboratory equipment and
many more to the three existing adopted schools namely Government Girls’
College Dala, Kano State, Edward Blyden Memorial Primary Schooland Akande
Dahunsi Memorial Junior and Senior School, Ikoyi, Lagos State.
In
a related development, the telecommunications company has concluded the 2016
Merit Awards Scholarship Scheme with the presentation of Scholarship
certificates to students in four Universities across the country. The
beneficiary universities include Modibbo Adamawa University of Technology,
Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State, Enugu State University of Science and
Technology, Enugu and Uthman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto.
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