Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Dr Bernard Doro, has made a passionate appeal to Corporate Organisations, especially those operating in vulnerable communities, to engage in impactful and tangible programmes while delivering their Corporate Social Responsibilities, CSR.
The Minister made the appeal in Akwa Ibom State, on Friday, during a multi-stakeholders engagement and community visits to Eastern Obolo local government.
Doro urged organisations to refrain from treating corporate social responsibility as a line item, but a commitment to honour real families and communities, even as he urged them to channel their resources towards live touching projects in the communities including water projects, classroom rehabilitations, skills acquisition and empowerment programmes.
He admitted the poverty in the oil rich community of Eastern Obollo, noting that companies which operate in the areas should also ensure that enormous resources they exploit from the land rub off positively on the people
His words, “Direct resources toward skills training for the youth I met today. Direct resources toward clean water that a mother need not walk miles to find. Direct resources toward classrooms where a child’s prospects are not diminished by a roof that leaks or is altogether absent.
“The means exist. Eastern Obolo has the need. I am here, today, calling for those two realities to finally converge. This is not a call for charity. It is a call for partnership, the kind that lets us say, years from now, that a child from Eastern Obolo became a nurse, an engineer, a teacher, or a business owner,
