The Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency (LASPARK), the state government’s agency for lands capping and beautification of spaces in the environment into alluring parks and gardens, recently received a “modest donation” from Haven Homes to support the agency’s environmental transformation and beautification strides befitting Lagos as an emerging mega city.
A real estate firm of great repute, Haven Homes is Nigeria’s life style living developers and promoters and, according to a statement from the company, the donation to LASPARK, which comprised giant refuse bins, was in furtherance of its commitment to meeting the needs of its immediate environment and the larger community and creating values under its corporate social responsibility programme.
Ufuoma Ilesanmi, the company’s general manager, accompanied by the clients’ service officer, Vivian Olowu, made the donation on behalf of the company which was received on behalf of the agency by the special assistant to the state governor on environment, Babatunde Hunpe, in conjunction with the General Manager of the agency, Abimbola Jijoho Ogun while the CEO, African Clean-up Initiative, Alexander Akhigbe, witnessed the brief ceremony.
Ilesanmi, arguably the youngest chief operating officer of a major property development firm in Nigeria, who represented the company’s MD/ CEO, Tayo Sonuga, said, “Haven Homes was motivated to make the bin donation because our firm believes LASPARK could still improve on the impressive work it is doing to beautify a mega city like Lagos through parks and gardens.
“We are making this donation to encourage LASPARK to do better than they are doing currently. Even though they are doing great now, there is always room for improvement and it is such little gestures like ours that will help to achieve that and as modest as our donation seems, we are aware that little drops of water make a mighty ocean. We sincerely hope that other corporate organizations will emulate our humble gesture and contribute to a very worthy cause, after all, the environment is an important matter to all and Lagos must be kept clean and beautiful”.
On their part, LASPARK appreciated the Haven Homes’ kind gesture and wished that other corporate organizations would do likewise because government subventions alone could not enable them to do all that they would want to do in the onerous task of beautifying the environment.
