Siemens Donates N12m Educational Facilities to Edo Schools

A development partner in the Azura-Edo independent power project, Siemens Nigeria Limited, has donated educational aids to three community primary schools in the Uhunmwonde Local Government Area of Edo State.

The beneficiaries of the intervention, comprising desks, chairs and a toilet facility, include Owegie Primary School in Orior-Osemwende community.

Others are Igbinakenzua Primary School and Oba Erediauwa Primary School in Ihovbor and Idunmwowina Nurho-Nisen communities, respectively.

The General Site Manager of Siemens/Azura-Edo IPP, Mr. Timo Brand, said that the donation was part of the company’s corporate social responsibility to the host communities. “I feel very proud; my personal achievement is to donate these equipment to the community schools hosting us for the project. I am happy that we have done this. If I had the chance to do more, I would do so,” Brand added.

On his part, the Project Manager (Onshore), Mr. Okechukwu Nwabuzor, explained that the educational equipment, worth about N12 million, were donated after wide consultations with the schools.

According to Nwabuzor, the gesture was also part of the firm’s policy to grow the educational capabilities of host communities.

“We actually did a needsbased assessment. We went to the three schools and each school told us exactly what it needed. In one of the schools, the children (pupils) were sitting on the ground; they did not have the needed infrastructure,” he added.

“So, what we did was to check the number of pupils and the availability and we arrived at 70 chairs that could accommodate 140 pupils, seven whiteboards and accessories that could last for the next one year.