Tanzania: Alliance One Tobacco Donates to Grassroots Projects

Source from:  Tanzania Daily News 05/27/2010

Dar Es Salaam - ALLIANCE One Tobacco has stepped up its corporate social responsibility profile in its effort to boost community development projects. Between January and March this year, the company, through its Community Development Projects Committee had made donations worth 69.83m/- for various community development projects in tobacco growing areas and in other places within Tanzania. It involved construction of school classrooms and teachers' houses in Kahama, Urambo, Tabora, Ruvuma and Shinyanga that cost 31m/-. It also involved solar panels, batteries, and UPS to 18 primary societies in Tabora, Urambo, Kahama, Manyoni, Kasulu and Ruvuma at the cost 15m/-. The solar panels have been donated to facilitate usage of computers awarded to 18 primary societies last season for their good performance in tobacco production and quality. The computers will help the primary societies in record keeping, preparation of farmers payments after tobacco sales and tobacco inputs loans tracking. The company has also constructed dispensaries in Ruvuma, Kahama and Urambo at 8m/-, renovation of tobacco storage facility in Kahama at 4m/, construction of a bridge in Kahama-that cost 3m/- and fees for vocational training to most vulnerable children in Morogoro Municipality for 1.44m/-, mosquito nets to Funga Funga Destitute Home - Morogoro for 3m/- and reconstruction of a dormitory at Bethlehem mental retarded children centre in Ifakara at the cost of 2m/-. Others were small scale entrepreneur development -SIDO Morogoro for 2m/-sports development - Police Morogoro for 3m/- . Enditem