Animal Care gives back to Ogere community

Animal Care Services Konsult Nigeria Limited, an agro-allied company that is into livestock farming, feed milling, and technical laboratory services, is giving back to the community through its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by providing infrastructural facilities to schools in Ogere community.

As part of the company’s 2016 corporate social responsibility, it has constructed six rooms modern toilets, borehole and parameter fence. The beneficiaries of the projects are Wesley Primary School, Christ Church School (CMS) and Community High School.

“This development is in furtherance of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility ideals and being mindful of leaving her footprint on the sands of time. In 2014, we commissioned a 12 room modern toilet facility, a borehole and an elevated tank at Ositelu Secondary School in Ogere,” Olatunde Agbato, president, Animal Care Services Konsult Ltd, said while speaking at the commissioning ceremony.

“We also made a commitment to uphold our ideology of CSR particularly in areas of educational facility and security support as well as the community and youth development,” he said.

Agbato urges benefiting schools to make good use of the facilities and ensure adequate maintenance measure are in place to secure the amenities.

These facilities will ensure accessibility to proper sanitation and portable water supply in a secured environment.

According to the World Health Organisation, “the greatest mortality in Africa arises from preventable waterborne diseases, which affects young children greater than any other group. The principal cause of these diseases is lack of clean drinking water.”

Provision of clean drinking water and practicing of basic sanitation has been recorded to reduce the morbidity and mortality rates of some of the most serious water-related diseases by up to 82 percent. Therefore, every child should have access to clean water and basic sanitation.