Displaying items by tag: Donation

Namibia: Ohorongo Cement – via the Ohorongo Otavi Community Trust – has donated US$59,800 to the Opuwo district hospital. Ohorongo Cement general manager Rudolf Coetzee sais, “This organisation supports various projects by means of financial and humanitarian means as well as through donation.”

El Salvador: Holcim El Salvador has enlarged its partnership with the Environmental Fund of El Salvador (FonAES) to provide an environmental awareness education programme to 6000 pupils across six schools. The Noticias Financieras newspaper has reported that Holcim El Salvador will give a total of US$12,400 to the programme in 2020, up by 1.5% year-on-year from US$12,200 in 2019.

Spain: Cementos Portland Valderrivas has said that it has donated to Cáritas Internationalis’ Samuel Project, which provides values and family workshops and quarterly excursions to disadvantaged people aged between six and 18. Cementos Portland Valderrivas Alcalá de Guadaíra plant environment manager Pedro Lanagrán said that the company is a part of the Alcalareño fabric, and therefore has a ‘responsibility towards society, which includes providing minors with the best education and the best values in order to coexist with society.’

Austria: w&p Zement has announced that it has donated an ABB robotic arm from a laboratory at its 0.8Mt/yr Weitersdorf plant to the mechatronics department of Klagenfurt Higher Technical College (HTL). The company replaced the 10kg-capacity, 1.55m armature with a fully automated POLAB cement laboratory as part of an upgrade for Industry 4.0. w&p Zement Weitersdorf operations manager Florian Salzer said, “We are pleased that the robot will continue to be of use, increasing the quality of technical training and thus laying the foundation for training tomorrow's top specialists.” He said that the equipment is in perfect condition because of the low weight of samples for which it was used.

Nigeria: Cement Company of Northern Nigeria (CCNN) has made a donation of 3000 bags of cement, equalling US$22,100 in value, to impoverished communities in Sokoto State’s Wamakko Local Government Area. CCNN corporate affairs manager Alhaji Sada Suleiman said that the donation, which is to help repair mosques, graveyards, public wells and Islamic schools, was part of the company’s corporate responsibility.