Newspaper dristributors rejoice as Vanguard donates eye glasses

…LG brag says CSR worthy of emulation

By Chioma Obinna & Olasunkami Akoni

Chairman of Ikeja Local Government Area, Akeem Dauda, has urged organisations and different media establishments to emulate the Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, inaugural of Vanguard Media Limited, describing it arsenic “laudable and worthy of emulation.”

Dauda made the call, yesterday, portion speaking arsenic Special Guest of Honour astatine the organisation of escaped eyeglasses to members of the Newspapers and Magazines Distributors’ Association of Nigeria, NDAN, Ikeja Zone.

The workout was a follow-up to Vanguard’s escaped aesculapian outreach, held past month, which provided hundreds of paper distributors and residents successful the country with broad wellness checks, specializer consultations, consciousness sessions, and escaped medicine drugs.

“This is simply a fantastic and laudable CSR programme, worthy of emulation,” Dauda said. “We arsenic a authorities cannot bash it unsocial due to the fact that our resources are limited. What we are trying to bash is to spot however we tin spouse with firm organisations similar Vanguard arsenic portion of our developmental docket to scope retired to the masses successful Ikeja. This is simply a clarion telephone to different media houses and organisations to emulate Vanguard successful giving backmost to society.”

The organisation of implicit 50 eyeglasses to beneficiaries connected Tuesday drew leaders and members of the organisation network, who described the motion arsenic unprecedented successful the industry. The recently elected President of NDAN, Ikeja Zone, Mr. Shomoni Fatai, expressed delight astatine Vanguard’s intervention, saying it was a “marvelous” inaugural that would amended the lives of distributors. “This is 1 happening that has ne'er happened successful the industry. We are truthful thankful to Vanguard for this large happening they person done successful our zone. We commune that different media houses volition emulate them,” helium said.

Also speaking, the recently elected president of the Press Union, Newspaper and Social Organization of Nigeria, Ikeja Zone, Mr. Somorin Pachai, explained that the eyeglasses were the effect of tests conducted during past month’s outreach. “The radical who took portion successful the aesculapian checks are contiguous collecting their glasses. This is not conscionable a one-off, and we don’t privation it to halt here,” helium said, adding that the Ikeja Local Government president had promised to prolong the effort by organizing akin programmes for residents.’

On his part, the Vice Chairman of NDAN, Mr. Prince Eze, testified to the idiosyncratic interaction of the initiative, noting that it had boosted his productivity. “In our industry, we indispensable work to amended others. But before, it was hard for maine to work tiny print. Now, with the glasses Vanguard provided, I tin work adjacent tiny letters. This has boosted my assurance and productivity,” helium said. He added that the interaction went beyond eyesight, arsenic the earlier aesculapian outreach had besides enabled members to cheque their wide wellness conditions.

Beneficiaries, who turned retired successful ample numbers, prayed for the continued occurrence of Vanguard and called connected different organisations to follow akin initiatives to enactment the payment of paper distributors and the communities they serve.

Vanguard Technical Consultant, Mr Patrick Oduone said the workout revealed a increasing request for affordable oculus attraction beyond the people radical of vendors.

“This marks the 2nd clip Vanguard is extending specified enactment to vendors successful Lagos, underscoring our committedness to improving entree to oculus attraction among underserved groups. We discovered that galore Lagos residents, passersby, artisans, and adjacent non-state staff, came guardant pleading to beryllium included.

“We had nary prime but to accommodate them. As a result, we volition present marque other proviso astatine each workout to guarantee that much radical successful request tin benefit.

“At each point, we effort to marque abstraction for anyone who genuinely requires the services, this is 1 of the cardinal lessons we’ve learned. For galore of the beneficiaries, the escaped glasses are much than conscionable a aesculapian aid, they are tools that volition amended productivity, reconstruct confidence, and heighten prime of life,” Oduone affirmed.

Beneficiaries prayed for the continued occurrence of Vanguard and urged different organisations to follow akin initiatives to enactment the payment of paper ...