The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, disclosed last week that the church has spent N433 million on community projects across nations while presenting report of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Pastor Adeboye said the projects were spread over 353 communities in 255 local governments of the nation. He said the projects included construction
of free community schools, provision of free portable
water, scholarship for indigent students and patrol
vans for police stations, among several others.
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Personnel
and Administration, Pastor Johnson Odesola,
Adeboye said: “We want to do more as we have a
mandate to spend N2billion on various community
projects in 2013 that will meet the growing needs
and aspiration of the people in all the 774 local
government areas in Nigeria.”
Restating the commitment of the church to carrying
out more developmental projects throughout the
country, he said the projects were carried out after
comprehensive needs assessment in the benefiting
communities.
He assured of the church’s determination to
complement efforts of the government in alleviating
poverty through provision of health care facilities and other developmental projects for national growth and stability.
Source:
The Nation
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