Chinese Company donates Educational Materials, PPE to Yobe School

Students of GSS Damaturu in picture with the items donated by Kawadgarbo 

By JOE Hemba, Damaturu

A Chinese construction company Kawadgarbo Road and Bridge Company Limited has donated educational materials to Government Secondary School, Damaturu, Yobe State. 

The Company also donated personal protective equipment for the fight of COVID 19 pandemic at the school.

 The donation according to the Marketing Manager of the Company, Yusuf Baffa who presented the materials on behalf of the Staff and management of the company said it is part of their Corporate Social Responsibility for the communities that they operate from.

 Mr. Baffa informed that the company in the last four years has donated similar materials to other schools in the state including, Yobe State Polytechnic Geidam and L E A Primary schools in Geidam and Bukarti worth about N3 million. 

 While making the presentation, Mr. Baffa said the objective of the company in donating educational materials to the schools was to assist them in the day to day operation. 

 According to him, the present situation, covid -19 pandemic has made them to donate personal protective equipment including face mask and hand sanitizers for both staff and students. 

 “This donations are part of the corporate social responsibility of Kawadgarbo Road and Bridge Company Limited. We do this every year. Every year, we choose a school and donate educational materials to ease some of the challenges they face.

 “In the previous years, we have donated to State Polytechnic Geidam and the L E A Primary schools in Geidam and Bukarti. Today we have done the same thing to GSS Damaturu,” Baffa informed.

 Some of the items donated include a Lasset Jet printer, white boads, stationaries, cartoon of soaps, hand sanitizers, exercise and text books, face mask and many others.

 Receiving the items. The Principal of the School, Awauwalu Mohammed Garba described the donation as strategic. He noted that the school for the first time is receiving for a donation, adding that, “we have never received this kind of donation in this school”. 

 He thanked the company for their gesture while also praying for them to get more contracts for do more. Kawadgarbo is a Chinese company that has been doing business in Yobe state in the past few years.

The Principal assured proper use of the items also promised  that they  will be distributed to the beneficiaries in the school.

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