TECHNIP, the company working on the sub-sea component of the Jubilee Oilfield drilling project offshore, has presented more than 2,200 pieces of treated mosquito nets to schoolchildren, teaching and non-teaching staff of four primary schools and its surrounding communities in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis.
Each child and staff of the beneficiary schools, including the Essipon M. A. Primary School, Ekuasi Methodist School, Ngyiresia M.A. Primary School, and Essikado Roman Catholic School were presented with one treated net each under its malaria awareness and prevention programme.
The company also contracted other NGOs under the project to educate the schoolchildren on the dangers on malaria and how to prevent it.
The environmental officers of the company also took the schoolchildren through how to preserve the environment and how waste should be disposed.
It said solid waste should be deposited at designated places and not in drains to prevent water from flowing and thereby, breed mosquitoes.
The company said even though the presentation formed part of its co-operate social responsibility, it had always been their style to ensure that they related well with their hosts.
The Country Manager of Technip, Mr Stephan Sole, said Malaria Control and Awareness programme was very important to ensure that children were not only protected but also made aware of the benefits of sleeping in treated nets.
He said healthy citizenry was a strength of every nation and it was through that they could develop. Therefore, as a company, Technip would do everything to ensure that in every country that it had its operations there was a strong bond of friendship between the company and its host communities or nations.
“I am glad that through the interaction, the children were made aware that clean environment will reduce the breeding ground for mosquitoes and if they were healthy, they will do well academically,” he said.
“Even though Technip is working on installations offshore on the sub-sea component of the Jubilee Oilfield, we always want a lovely relationship with the communities in which we operate as good corporate citizens,” he added.
For her part, Chief of Essipon, Nana Kofi Abuna V, commended the company for the relationship with members of the communities and developing interest in the education and health needs of children.
She said health was the utmost need of children and it was very gratifying that the company had chosen to attend to the health needs of the children in her community.
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