As part of its corporate social responsibility, the National Social Security and Welfare Corporation (NASSCORP) has donated 50,000 (fifty thousand) notebooks to the Ministry of Education (MOE).
Making the presentation on behalf of the National Social Security and Welfare Corporation (NASSCORP) Director-General Dewitt vonBallmoos on Tuesday, December 15, 2020, the Deputy Director-General of NASSCORP, D. Nya Twayen, Jr., said the donation was aimed at buttressing government’s effort at improving the educational sector of the country by making notebooks available for all students in the country.
The Deputy Director General mentioned that the donation is part of NASSCORP’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) mandate to produce these materials for students, particularly those most in need, noting that the distribution will be carried out throughout the country.
“We as an entity decided under our corporate social responsibilities mandate for NASSCORP to produce 50,000 (fifty thousand) copybooks so that you at the MOE can distribute them to students who are in need. We want the kids to know about NASSCORP at an early age through the messages on the notebook, and when they grow up they should know the value of social security and know the importance of social security in their lives. We will continue to produce more materials that will carry these messages,” Twayen noted.
Twayen further said he hoped that the notebooks will be distributed across the country among all school-going age students, based on the MOE vetting process.
For his part, the Deputy Education Minister for Instruction, Alexander Duopo, who received the donated materials commended NASSCORP for their humanitarian gesture, adding that this will greatly reduce the financial burden on parents, and that kids will have the necessary schooling materials to go back to school.
Duopo used the occasion to express thanks and appreciation to the Social Security family for such an initiative. “We do value this partnership, and education is the heartbeat of President George M. Weah to see that our children have quality education. I know our parents are struggling because of the interruption of the Covid-19 pandemic,” Deputy Minister Duopo added.
