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Child Care: NITEL Donates N2.5m to UNICEF From Cletus Akwaya in Abuja Nigeria Telecommuni-cations Limited (NITEL) yesterday donated N2.5 million to the United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF) to support the agency's child care programes. Deputy General Manager Corporate Communications, Mr. Tayo Ekundayo who made the presentation at the UNICEF offices in Abuja on behalf of NITEL management said the donation was in line with the company's policy of corporate social responsibility. "As a corporate entity, NITEL does not contend itself wit just profit. We are indeed a society-sensitive company which is concerned about the well being of the community from where it generates its income," he said at the brief ceremony stressing " we have partnered with community in areas such as sports sponsorship and corporate support to worthy causes." The N2.5 million is a marked increase over the N1 million made by NITEL to the UN agency last year. Ekundayo explained that the donation was voluntarily made adding, the choice of UNICEF was in recognition of the need to invest in children as tomorrow's leaders. Chief of Water, Environment and Sanitation at UNICEF, Mr. Stanley Hall in his response commended NITEL for the gesture and pledged the judicious application of the funds to children programmes especially the guinea worm eradication. Hall disclosed that through the efforts of UNICEF, the number of people infected with guinea worm has dropped from 658,000 in 1988 to 1460 in 2003. He said UNICEF was at the moment carrying out different guinea worm eradication activities in 16 states including the heavily infected states of Benue, Oyo, Ebonyi, Niger and Ogun. The gave the other states as Borno, Gombe, Nasarawa, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Kwara, Kogi, Cross River and Enugu. The UNICEF Chief gave the intervention areas as provision of safe water sources; creation of awareness on the mode of transaction; health education in terms of changing peoples behaviours; mobilization of communities for collective action; capacity building at different levels of programme ; surveillance; supervision; distribution and use of cloth filters and advocacy with the assistance of former Head of state, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd). Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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