WACT-APM Terminals Renovates Teachers’ Quarters In Host Community

WACT-APM Terminals Nigeria has commissioned and handed implicit a recently renovated 10-room Teachers’ Quarters successful its big assemblage of Ogu, Ogu/Bolo LGA, Rivers State, arsenic portion of its committedness to advancing acquisition and assemblage development.

The quarters, primitively built by the institution successful 2012, person present been upgraded to supply teachers with much modern, comfy and conducive accommodation.

The project, which falls nether the company’s thematic country of Education and Infrastructure Development, is designed to supply decent and comfy accommodation for teachers serving successful the community. By improving teachers’ surviving conditions, it said, the inaugural aims to boost their morale, promote retention, and yet lend to raising the modular of acquisition successful Ogu.

The main Finance officer, APM Terminals Nigeria, Courage Obadagbonyi explained that, the renovation of the Teacher’s Quarters demonstrates the company’s dedication to some acquisition and assemblage development: ‘’Education is astatine the halfway of what we preach successful WACT and our genitor entity, the APM Terminals Group. The upgraded Teachers’ Quarters reaffirms our committedness to CSR initiatives wrong our 4 thematic areas: Education, Health & Environment; Training & Development and Infrastructure Development.

“We judge that teachers request to beryllium taken attraction of. If they are not successful the close framework of mind, the interaction connected the students volition beryllium minimal. With the rising outgo of accommodation, we anticipation that they find suitable structure successful this Project and springiness the champion to the students, their parents, the Ogu Community and nine astatine large. Our shared committedness to increasing broadside by broadside with the Ogu assemblage remains the bedrock of our CSR initiatives,” Obadagbonyi pointed out.

WACT-APM Terminals Nigeria Community Relations manager, Justin Okwuofu, emphasised the value of the task successful supporting teachers and sustaining acquisition successful Ogu: ‘’This task we are commissioning contiguous was built successful the twelvemonth 2012 to assistance teachers who are teaching successful the assemblage to person a bully residence successful the community. But due to the fact that implicit the years, the task had worn retired and dilapidated, we felt the request to person a conducive surviving situation for the residents and that was wherefore we embarked connected the renovation,” Okwuofu noted.

In his goodwill message, the caput the Ogu Divisional Council of Chiefs, Chief Lawrence Tokuibiye Ogobo-Inuma, applauded the institution for the project, describing it arsenic a timely involution that would person a lasting interaction successful the community:

’We privation to admit WACT. They are 1 of the companies that person ne'er taken their CSR projects for granted and their beingness has been truthful felt successful our community. They person empowered our youths, women etc, and truthful galore different projects person been enactment up successful the assemblage by them. This installation is going to make a batch of interaction successful presumption of accommodating our youths, making them comfy and capable to ore connected their teaching,” Ogobo-Inuma stressed.