The recent completion and successful hand over of the 3 Kabini Hill CSR projects comes as sign of East African Portland Cement Company’s continued contribution towards the development of education in the country. EAPCC spent over Kenya Shillings twelve million (Kshs. 12,000,000) in the development of the projects and officially handed them over to the community on Friday 02^nd October 2009.

 

The 3 projects namely: - Elerai MCK Girls Secondary School – Dormitory Wing, Elerai Primary School – Classroom No.1 and E.A Kabini Primary School – Dining Hall/Kitchen all stand as testament to EAPCC continual support and its commitment to bettering the academic life and standards in the Kabini Hill area where EAPCC conducts the majority of its extraction work.

 

EAPCC Managing Director, Eng. John Nyambok and Asst. Minister for Defence Maj. Gen (Rtd) Joseph Nkaiserry were at hand to hand over the projects.

 

 

Speaking at Elerai MCK Girls he unveiled the plaque EAPCC Managing Director, Eng. John Nyambok said “This is a great step in ensuring proper development of education for the girl child in the area. By providing more and better facilities, EAPCC continues to ensure that the girl child is sufficiently empowered through the provision of quality education. This new dormitory block will help house 144 students giving them more time to concentrate with their education”.

 

 

 

 

Elerai Primary School was the next project to be unveiled. Before EAPCC’s intervention young standard 1 children were learning under a tree. Today however, they received a 40 seater fully furnished classroom. The Area MP – Hon. Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Joseph Nkaisserry thanked EAPCC for their steadfast commitment as they had promised to build the classroom earlier in the year. He appreciated the work the Company had done towards the development of the Sultan Hamud community. Hon. Nkaiserry also took this opportunity to thank EAPCC for the bursary allocation that they had awarded needy students in the greater Kajiado Central area earlier in the year. The Kenya Shillings two million two hundred and fifty thousand (Kshs. 2,250,000) bursary went a long way in ensuring the continuity of education at a time when the area and indeed the country was greatly affected by the drought. The MP continued to urge the pupils of the school to study hard in order to excel. He called upon the parents in the area to bring all their children to school in order to ensure future development of the region.

 

After establishing the dire conditions from which the school children at Kabini Primary were eating from. EAPCC decided to intervene and not only build the school a new dining hall/ kitchen, but take over the school to be E.A Portland Kabini Primary School.

Speaking as he commissioned the Dining Hall/Kitchen, EAPCC Managing Director Eng. John Nyambok said “By improving the learning conditions of students we nurture the young minds that will drive this country in the future”.