Oil major, Chevron Nigeria Limited and some of her employees have donated a set of textbooks, electronic teaching aids and a generator to Unity School, Agbarho in Ughelli North local government, as part of its continued effort towards enhancing the quality of education in Delta State.
Speaking at the presentation ceremony in the school recently, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education in Ughelli North Local Government Area, Mr. Marcus Ovie said that the ministry deeply appreciate the initiative of the company and her employees, adding that government alone cannot cope with the provision of infrastructural facilities in public schools.
The General Manager, Policy,Government and Public Affairs, Chevron, Mr. Deji Haastrup, said the donation is to “renew our commitment to contribute to the development of the education sector in Delta State”, noting that the Chevron Employee Volunteering Program was an initiative by the company to encourage employees “to contribute to the socio-economic development of communities through voluntary donation of employees’ time, talents and finances”. He was represented by the Offshore Memorandum of Understanding (OMoU)Coordinator, Dan Agbofode.
Mrs. Liade Adesanya, who represented the Managing Director of New Nigeria Foundation, the NGO that facilitated the Project, noted that the donation includes a set of 20 text books for eight key focus subjects, model answers to past questions in the subjects, a School-to-Air program developed around the curricula of the subjects; and an e-tutor element which resulted in the training of teachers in the school.
The President of Unity School Agbarho Old Students’ Association, Arc. Emmanuel Abulu, said old students of the school are desirous to raise the standard in Unity School Agbarho back to the level where it was when they were students in the school.
He said that old students were proud of the role the school had played in their upbringing.
The donation was a follow -up to the donation of a science laboratory to the school in November 2012 by Texaco Nigeria Outer Shelf Limited, a Chevron Company in collaboration with the Unity School Old Students’ Association (USAOSA) and the Parents/Teachers Association of the School.
The Principal of the School, Sir Ruben Onoriose, noted that the collaboration between the Old Students’ Association and the Parents/Teachers’ Association with the support of the government was very productive, just as he promised to achieve reasonable improvement in the performance of students of the school.
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