EAPCC_Annual_Report_.. - Investing In Africa
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2010/2011<br />
EAST AFRICAN PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED<br />
ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS<br />
<strong>EAPCC</strong>’s CSR Policy<br />
For the East <strong>Africa</strong>n Portland Cement Company (<strong>EAPCC</strong>),<br />
the meaning of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is<br />
conducting business in ways that produce social, environmental<br />
and economic benefits for the communities in<br />
which it operates in and for the Company’s stakeholders.<br />
<strong>EAPCC</strong> works hard to live up to this ideal. The Company<br />
regularly holds meetings with community leaders, government<br />
officials, and employee groups to gather information<br />
about important local needs and develop initiatives to build<br />
stronger, healthier relationships with the communities.<br />
The Company also receives various requests for assistance<br />
from stakeholders which are reviewed carefully and<br />
addressed in a manner that maximizes the benefit to the<br />
community with the resources available.<br />
<strong>EAPCC</strong>’s CSR Policy Pillars<br />
• Community Development and Economic Advancement<br />
• The Environment<br />
• Employees and the Workplace<br />
Community Development and Economic Advancement<br />
Water<br />
The Company has been active at Kabini Hill for over five decades.<br />
<strong>In</strong> this time, <strong>EAPCC</strong> has established solidly good relations<br />
with the local community. The presence of <strong>EAPCC</strong> in<br />
the region is important to the local community due to various<br />
life-sustaining projects undertaken by the Company.<br />
The local community is a pastoralist community in an arid<br />
environment. To facilitate ease of access to water, the Company<br />
has dug 5 boreholes and 5 dams in the region. <strong>In</strong> the<br />
last financial year, these were rehabilitated to ensure the<br />
community continues to have access to water at all times.<br />
Safety<br />
The family of Shekeine Siiyo, a livestock farmer at Kabini,<br />
was relocated by <strong>EAPCC</strong> to a region further away from the<br />
Kabini Quarry where blasting operations occur on a daily<br />
basis. The blasting used to cause discomfort to the family<br />
and raised concerns as well for the stability of their house.<br />
The Company built a brand new modern home that is not<br />
only going to stay stable but significantly assures a high<br />
living standard for the Siiyo family.<br />
Education<br />
<strong>EAPCC</strong> places a premium on education. Education is particularly<br />
important to the Company because it benefits society<br />
at large and the Company in particular by providing<br />
the highly qualified personnel it needs to run its complex<br />
operations and various sophisticated machinery used in<br />
the manufacture of its world-class cement.<br />
<strong>In</strong> the last financial year, Gathuthiini Primary School<br />
in Kagio, Kirinyaga District, has benefited from an investment<br />
in a brand new, ultra-modern ablution block for both<br />
students and teachers. Before, the students were forced<br />
to use rundown facilities which posed a health and safety<br />
hazard. With the new facilities, the students can now enjoy<br />
bathroom services in dignity and hygiene. Furthermore,<br />
the Company is sponsoring four bright but disadvantaged<br />
students from the school through several national secondary<br />
schools.<br />
<strong>In</strong> the just completed financial year, <strong>EAPCC</strong> recognized<br />
that the residents of the greater Kajiado Central area, who<br />
are mainly pastoralists, were hard-hit by the drought, leading<br />
to the loss of countless livestock and eradicating the<br />
communities’ earning power.<br />
SAFELY RE-SETTLED: Shekeine Siiyo (centre, arm outstretched, holding keys),<br />
the Community Liaison Officer hands over the new house to the Siiyo family<br />
as friends and other staff of <strong>EAPCC</strong> look on<br />
THREE CHEERS FOR DIGNITY AND HYGIENE: The Chairman <strong>EAPCC</strong>, Mr. Mark ole<br />
Karbolo (left), and the PS, Ministry of <strong>In</strong>dustrilization, Dr. Karanja Kibicho,<br />
celebrate with the excited pupils of Gathuthiini Primary School on the groundbreaking<br />
of their new modern ablution block<br />
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EAST AFRICAN PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED<br />
ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2010/2011