Julius Berger Services Nigeria Limited has granted scholarship to 24 students from Ogbe-Ijoh and Ugbomefa communities in Delta state.
This was announced at the company’s Educational Assistance Award Program for Host Communities at its Warri Port terminal, recently.
The event, which is part of the company’s ever-expanding corporate social responsibility initiatives, was in furtherance of its policy to meaningfully contribute and enhance the development of people in its host communities.
A statement by the company stated that, “as a sensitive part of its business culture, the company goes beyond the essential profit-making motive to strongly partner with its host environment and people for mutually progressive development, advancement and growth.”
Speaking at the event, the chairman, Scholarship Board of Ogbe-Ijoh Kingdom, Chief Sylvester Tiebebedigha, secretary general, Comrade Mefe Alagba, youth chairman, Amoma Toritseju Omagbemi, among other representatives of the host communities expressed their profound gratitude to Julius Berger Services for the kind and foresighted gesture.
The General Manager, Julius Berger Nigeria Services, Captain Rainer Jensch, who was represented by manager, sales and public relations, Mr Henry Osunbor, admonished the beneficiaries to remain focused in their studies and be diligent in their academic and professional development because of the strategic importance of education to their future.
“It cannot be over-emphasized that education is the best gift society and industry can give to children. It is the only hope for trans-generational sustainability which is also the enduring and driving operational philosophy of Julius Berger”.
Jensch urged the representatives of the communities and their youth leaders to counsel their children and wards to use the funds for the purpose for which it is provided, adding that the company, as a proactive policy, remains ever mindful and committed to progressively do more, to positively affect and lift lives in its host communities.
