CFAO under her corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda reached out to Ijora Oloye community with Malaria preventive program on the 17th of December 2019, through the technical support of the Nigerian Business Coalition Against AIDS (NiBUCAA).
CFAO is a market leader in automotive and pharmaceutical distribution and continues to grow in consumer goods, new technology, and energy solutions.
The CFAO Group has a direct presence in 36 African countries, Nigeria inclusive, with different locations across the 36 states. In a bid to give back to one of the communities where their business is located, a Malaria outreach project was carried out in Ijora Oloye Community Lagos, Nigeria.
As Part of the activities to mark the event, there was; Sensitisation on malaria vector, Environmental Management, Rapid Malaria Test and Provision of Long-Lasting Insecticide Treated Net at the community. Beneficiaries of the outreach program were mostly pregnant mothers at the Primary health care centre in Ijora Oloye, Children and Men. The Oba of the community was played a major role in allowing for entry in his community.
The importance of the outreach program is to help reduce malaria in the community and to improve the health standard of living in the community, the theme of the project Zero Malaria Starts with me was used as part of the enlightenment campaign by NiBUCAA a coalition of leading business to help tackle the issue of HIV & AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in the workplace and their host community in Nigeria, so as to get across to the Ijora Oloye community who were receptive of the outreach program.
ANTHONIA OBOKOH
