{"id":18478,"date":"2011-01-17T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T15:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=18478"},"modified":"2011-01-17T10:35:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T15:35:50","slug":"tullow-oil-plc-and-the-playhouse-foundation-donate-school-furniture-to-kono-district-schools-valued-at-le-120-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=18478","title":{"rendered":"Tullow Oil Plc and the Playhouse Foundation donate school furniture to Kono District schools valued at Le. 120 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday 20 January 2011 – Tullow Oil<\/strong> will be presenting the Kono District schools with furniture valued at Le 120 million!<\/p>\n

About Tullow Oil: <\/strong>Tullow Oil plc (\u201cTullow\u201d) is an international oil and gas Exploration and Production \u00a0company that is registered on the London Stock Exchange.\u00a0 Tullow has operations in a number of African countries including Ghana, where it is the operator of the recently discovered Jubilee Field, in Uganda, where it has discovered approximately 1 billion barrels of oil, and in Sierra Leone where it has a 10% stake in offshore Block SL7B-10 where the Venus and Mercury oil discoveries have recently been made.<\/p>\n

Tullow\u2019s Social Enterprise Programme: <\/strong>As a responsible operator and good neighbour, Tullow works closely with its stakeholders to ensure that its operations generate opportunities for long-term sustainable partnerships which create shared prosperity in the countries where it operates.<\/p>\n

The company has a comprehensive Social Enterprise (SE) programme that plays a strategic role in creating this shared prosperity by aligning business objectives with the development priorities of local stakeholders.<\/p>\n

Tullow\u2019s Social Enterprise programme focuses on four areas: health, education, environment and developing entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

Tullow\u2019s work with Playhouse Foundation: <\/strong>This collaboration with the Playhouse Foundation supports Tullow\u2019s Social Enterprise goals, as education and skills development is a natural priority for the company due to its relationship with productivity and economic growth.\u00a0 Improved education provides opportunities to the younger generation and this, in turn, enables Tullow and other investors to cost-effectively recruit locally trained personnel. It also delivers many other spill over benefits to the communities in the form of heightened community awareness, greater disposition to adopt newer ways of doing things and ready responsiveness to democracy \u2013 all of which help to create a favourable investment climate for future development.<\/p>\n

In addition, through the manufacture of this school furniture, Tullow created jobs for 11 welders and 7 carpenters over a period of three months.\u00a0 These young men were formerly, street kids, high school drop outs and unemployed youths who have been trained at the St. Joseph\u2019s Vocational Institute in Lunsar and work at a small artisanal centre that have been established by the St. Joseph\u2019s Fathers and Brothers of Murialdo who run the Vocational Institute and the Murialdo Secondary School in Lunsar.<\/p>\n

The Playhouse Foundation: <\/strong>The Playhouse Foundation is a charitable organization that was established in 2009 by Mr. Abu Deedee Koroma and Ms. Finda Koroma in memory of their parents, the Late Abu Aiah Koroma Esq. and his wife, the Late Dank\u00e9 Evelyn Koroma.\u00a0 The focus of the foundation is on education and the main beneficiaries are children, the youth and the disadvantaged section of the population in Sierra Leone.\u00a0\u00a0 The Playhouse Foundation is registered charity in Houston, Texas and in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Some members of its board include Mrs Miriam Conteh-Morgan, Mrs Jeanne Kamara, Mrs Mamadi Demby, Mrs Valerie Gilpin, Mr. Ibrahim Othame Kabia, Ms. Clementine Nkweta, Ms. Finda Koroma and Mr. Abu Deedee Koroma.<\/p>\n

Beneficiaries of the Programme: <\/strong>The following schools are beneficiaries of the programme:<\/p>\n