LASACO partners learn on summer school

IN furtherance of its strategic initiative to build its brand equity through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), LASACO Assurance Plc has made financial donation to Lagos Empowerment and Resource Network (LEARN) to enable it to organise and facilitate Summer School programme sfor students for this year vacation as a means of keeping students off the street during the period.

Beyond students being taught their regular academic subjects, the summer school programme, according to the organisers, is also designed to empower student with practical skills that would make them self -reliance and inculcate entrepreneurial skills in different areas of endeavours. Practical skill areas include shoe making, bead making, event decoration, barbing, catering, soap making, photography, among others.

Speaking on the collaborative initiative, the General Manager, Mr. Biodun Dosunmu, who stood in for the Group Managing Director, LASACO Assurance Plc, Mr Olusola Ladipo-Ajayi, explained that LASACO believed tomorrow was certain when future leaders were properly groomed and nurtured through investment in their education and empowerment with practical skills that would make them self-reliant.

“Our support for LEARN has been on in the last three to four years due to LASACO’s belief in being a socially responsible corporate organisation, as well as sustaining the legacy of its former chairman, the late Chief Akin Leigh, who initiated the collaboration with LEARN. This great initiative aligns with one of LASACO’s strategic business principle of striving to achieve a better society, particularly by using corporate social responsibility platform. This ,therefore, deserves sustenance.

“LASACO cannot but give support to Lagos State government’s drive to lay a solid foundation for the future leaders. Lagos State government has also been very supportive of LASACO as a corporate entity,” he added.
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Mr Dosunmu, who led a team of LASACO management staff to visit one of the summer school centres at Oke Ira Junior Grammar School, Oke Ira, Lagos, expressed gratitude to LEARN for taking the initiative to get the students engaged during the holiday rather than roaming the street, stating that the society would be better for it.

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