Engineering & Construction International, a global organization with expertise in construction and engineering, has won the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Engineering Company of the Year at the Ghana CSR Excellence Awards, GHACEA, held on 23rd September, 2016 in Accra.
The Awards scheme was organized by the Centre for CSR, West Africa and supported by the Ministry of Trade & Industry, Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), Ghana Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Japan International Cooperation Agency, (JICA) and more than 25 media organizations.
The citation for the Award reads in part: “Odebrecht Ghana is committed to its internal and external CSR initiatives. The Engineering and Construction company has implemented many laudable projects such as Work, Safety Education and Wellness campaign, provided free breast cancer and prostate Cancer education and screening to its staff. To support the human resource base of the country and building capacity of students, Odebrecht Ghana has instituted the Odebrecht Engineering Awards for Engineering students in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana.”
Speaking about the Awards, Danilo Trinchao, in charge of People & Finance at Odebrecht Ghana explained: “Our company is a very socially responsible organization and the CSR Award we won attests to that fact. We engender productive initiatives that generate job and income opportunities, improve our stakeholders’ quality of life, promotes dialogue, cooperation and commitment designed to increase the value chain’s contribution toward sustainable development, strengthening of social inclusion and the promotion of human and cultural diversity. And through strategic technology and knowledge transfer, we contribute to the development of the capacity and expertise of the human resource of this country, especially in engineering and construction.”
Odebrecht Ghana, in consortium with another Brazilian company, is constructing the Lots 5 & 6 of the Eastern Corridor Road Project in Northern Ghana and in July 2016, its joint venture team achieved 5,000,000 (5 million) man-hours without a single work accident resulting in grave injury. Together, good safety education and practices with more than 30,000 man-hours in training sessions and the usage of collective protection equipment created a safe work environment for our workers.
Odebrecht Ghana introduced an awards scheme for engineering students, focused on recognizing, encouraging and motivating university students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST) to learn and overcome challenges, and to pursue careers in the engineering field. Last year, the company also organized an extensive free education and testing for breast cancer (targeted at female staff members) and prostate cancer (targeted at male staff members).
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