Past Cement making: Dangote Cement Ibese Celebrates Senior Residents, Champions Inclusion in Host Communities

…As Ogun Commends Cement Big for Empowering Individuals with Disabilities

Foremost Cement producer, Dangote Cement Plc has reaffirmed its dedication to deepening neighborhood welfare by means of sustained social funding programmes in its host communities throughout Nigeria and pan-Africa.

Head of Dangote Cement Plc, Ibese Plant, Mr. Ayyagari Subbaraidu made the declaration when the Plant hosted elders and individuals with incapacity inside its 17 host communities throughout a programme tagged: “A Day Out with Senior Residents”, held on the plant premises in Ibese, Ogun State.

Dangote cement Ibese restated its unwavering dedication to the event of communities inside which it operates simply because the Ogun State Authorities praised the administration of the Firm for its unwavering dedication to neighborhood well-being.

The Plant Director mentioned the initiative is supposed to boost the emotional, social, and bodily well-being of the aged within the communities, including that the programme now in its third yr, addresses among the challenges many elders face, together with loneliness and restricted social interplay, by offering a supportive surroundings for leisure, connection, and free medical screenings.

Stated he; “This annual occasion is specifically curated to enhance the social and emotional well-being of our senior residents whereas providing important medical checks and take-home objects to help their high quality of life,”

He defined that whereas ageing is a blessing, many elders expertise loneliness and restricted interplay, noting that the outreach serves as a platform for leisure, bonding, and entry to free well being checks.

Subbaraidu additionally disclosed that alongside the outreach, Dangote Cement recognized six people dwelling with disabilities who obtained wheelchairs to help their motion and every day actions.

“With this yr’s version, we’ve now reached 150 elders and 11 individuals with disabilities underscoring the corporate’s dedication to recognizing and uplifting susceptible teams inside our host communities. Our aim is to place smiles on the faces of our senior residents in recognition of their contributions to society,” he said.

A few of the objects distributed to the beneficiaries embody: rechargeable lamp, Cardigan, Twin-power transistor radio (battery-operated and rechargeable), Adire, , Double layer thermal insulator water flask, drinks and milk, tea bag, Disinfectant, Compressor socks, Jumbo shear butter cream, Packs of bathing cleaning soap, Detergent, Dangote Rice, Semovita, Money incentive and take-home bag.

Mr. Subbaraidu assured all stakeholders that Dangote Cement Ibese will proceed to strengthen interventions in well being, schooling, infrastructure, and empowerment in keeping with its Neighborhood Growth Settlement including; “We stay dedicated to supporting neighborhood development by means of initiatives that promote peace, progress, and shared prosperity.”

He then thanked the Ogun State Authorities, companions, and neighborhood leaders for his or her partnership and collaboration which has supplied the peaceable ambiance prevailing within the communities.

Subbaraidu famous that this yr’s version was organized in collaboration with Ore Ofe Clinic, Ilaro, a trusted healthcare supplier in Dangote Cement’s HMO community, to make sure complete well being screening for all beneficiaries.

The Ogun State Authorities, represented by Hon. Araba Adebukunola, Particular Assistant to the Governor on Ladies Affairs, lauded Dangote Cement for its unwavering dedication to the well-being of the neighborhood, describing the initiative as a mannequin for company social duty within the area.

The Particular Assistant to the Governor praised Dangote Cement for its constant dedication to neighborhood well-being noting that the outreach aligns with the state authorities’s imaginative and prescient to advertise holistic welfare for senior residents, individuals with disabilities, and susceptible teams.

Mentioning that the programme enhances ongoing social inclusion efforts of the state Ministry of Ladies Affairs, Hon. Adebukunola highlighted a number of initiatives of the Ogun State Authorities, together with the Ladies Financial Empowerment Coverage, the Nigerian for Ladies Venture, abilities acquisition programmes, gender-based violence response techniques, and little one safety providers as among the state authorities programmes design to socially help the individuals of the state..

She described the Dangote’s Day Out with Senior Residents as “well timed, impactful, and deeply aligned” with the state’s mission of supporting residents throughout all life phases, whereas reaffirming the Ministry’s willingness to collaborate with organisations advancing neighborhood wellness.

Additionally Talking, chairman of Yewa North Native Authorities, Olusola Akinbode, recommended the administration of Dangote Cement, Ibese Plant, stressing that the unrelenting efforts of the organisation in making certain that everybody is catered to in and across the host communities isn’t any imply feat.

“Time beyond regulation, we’ve had a really clean relationship with Dangote Cement, Ibese; they’ve been regulation abiding, very supportive and we see individuals with a coronary heart of giving and development. Their humanitarian actions and company social duties have lower throughout all age teams; from youth empowerment to farmers’ provision of instruments for artisans, girls and the aged empowerment, Dangote Cement is actually dedicated to a greater society.

An emotional Banji Bamidele, an individual with incapacity and one of many six recipients of the wheelchairs, thanked the administration for his or her variety present, including that in his 30 years of being bodily challenged and crawling from finish to finish, “that is the primary time I’ll have the chance of driving on a wheelchair, which places an finish to over 30 years of crawling. I thank Dangote Cement for this priceless present.”