The discharge of its corporate social responsibility is aimed at deepening its relationship with communities around its operational areas, Daewoo Engineering and Construction Nigeria Limited (DECN) has said.

DECN’s Community Affairs and Security (CAS) Manager, Anderson Jaja, represented by the Public Relations Officer of DECN, Robinson Emmanuel said this on Monday, July 17, 2023 during the presentation of a second batch of educational materials to Community Primary School, Finima in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State.

He reiterated that this was in line with its commitment to the educational development of children in its operational areas, stressing that the gesture would encourage children to embrace education and pursue their future aspirations.   

DECN’s Senior Community Affairs and Security Manager, I. S. Seo made the presentation, which included school bags, Mathematical sets, notebooks, footballs and jerseys for the community, to the Headmistress of the school, Awajitelenyem Manfred, at the school premises in Finima. 

with him were the Project Sponsor; Lee Won Kil, Community Affairs and Security (CAS) Manager; Anderson Jaja, Community Affairs Officer, Pepple Susan Progress, and Office Support Staff, Edward Jetta.

“We are here again at CPS Finima to present more study materials to the children of the school. It is part of our social responsibility which we hope would create better relations with our communities.”

“As you can see we’re presenting these items to the school Headmistress, school bags, mathematical sets, books and other items for their studies and academic activities.”

Emmanuel said the motivation behind the donation is to encourage interest in academic activities and educational development in communities where DECN is doing business, adding that Education remains the cardinal objective of the company.

Responding, Head Mistress of Community Primary School, Finima, Awajitelenyem Manfred thanked the company for the donation, saying it would be beneficial to the pupils of the school.

Also speaking, Chairman of Finima Development Committee (FDC), Sonny Jack-Brown thanked Daewoo E&C Nigeria Ltd for the gesture, saying that Finima Community is elated with the donation, pointing out that such acts of philanthropy would go a long way to improve the academic environment for children.

He called for strategic stakeholder engagement prior to such donations, stressing that such would ensure that proper statistics and concerns would be captured in the discharge of such corporate social responsibilities by the construction firm, urging the management of DECN to continue to do more for the community.

Daewoo Engineering and Construction Nigeria Limited is contractor to engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) implementer for the Train 7 project for the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG).

It comes into the construction space with several years antecedent of successful project delivery trajectory having delivered several high profile projects in different parts of Nigeria.