Unilever Nigeria plans to promotes oral hygiene by educating 10 million Nigerians pupils by 2020

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Through the Pepsodent Brush Day and Night Oral health campaign, Unilever seeks to tackle poor oral hygiene and tooth decay and improve oral health amongst Nigerians. Recently the program successfully reached 700,000 school children in Rivers, Delta, Lagos, Abia and Ogun states, extending the reach to over 3.5million school children across 5,375 government primary schools since inception.In the reports, the managing director, Yaw Nsarkoh disclosed that the Company in partnership with relevant stakeholders, like the federal ministry health, the 21-day behavioural change programme directly educates and motives primary school children in government schools on the importance of good oral hygiene with products (Pepsodent toothpaste and toothbrushes), free educational materials and brand instruction ambassadors. The program is targeted at promoting oral hygiene by educating 10 million Nigerian pupils by 2020.

He recalls that to improve health and wellbeing in Nigeria, Unilever also launched the Heroes for Change Program, a social mission volunteer program anchored on the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP). The programme is aimed at recruiting, teaching and empowering university undergraduates and Youth corps members to contribute to society and make an impact in creating a better future for all Nigerians. Through the heroes for Change program, the volunteer university students and Youth Corp members will work towards health and wellbeing, enabling these students and Youth Corp members to make a difference in their communities by volunteering their time through teaching in Unilever social mission programmes to their communities.

“With the high unemployment rate continuing to grow, Unilever Nigeria’s ambition is to use our business model to create one (1) million job opportunities for Nigerian women and Youth. The aim is to empower women and youth and ultimately help address unemployment and poverty trends in Nigeria.

“Unilever Nigeria is also into project creating value along the supply chain to enable reduced unemployment and poverty levels in the country. The project is tagged as SHAKTI (Mbuli, Gbemiga, Tallapi) is our Company’s initiative to financially empower rural women and create livelihood opportunities for them. The project Shakti provides livelihood enhancing opportunities to women micro-entrepreneurs across Nigeria. The shakti entrepreneurs are given training for familiarization with our Company’s products and basic tenets of distribution management. We also have a team of Rural Sales Promoters (RSPs) who coach and help the Shakti women in managing their business. This includes help in business basic and troubleshooting as well as coaching in softer skills of negation and communication which enable them to run their business better.

“As at today, the Shakti project has 2500 registered entrepreneurs across 11 states.

“Working with a non-profit organization called the Growing Business Foundation and in partnership with the Kaduna state government, were we have empower an additional 500 women in the state.

Mr Nsarkoh noted that “our Customer Development Micro-entrepreneurs project which is designed to promoting entrepreneurship, by empowering third party sub-distributors and two-wheeler bikers across Nigeria. The feedback from the field showed 12 bicycles, 350 motorbikes, over 140 clerks and 180 sub-distributors as micro-entrepreneurs has been recorded in semi-urban and rural areas as an extension of our sales operations.

The managing director has said that our manufacturing operations are important to realizing our goal of reducing our environmental impact. We have looked into our Supply Chain processes and the waste generated from the Company’s factory sites are reused or recycled, with structures in place to measure real time consumption of utilities such as water, steam, energy and power, enabling the effective monitoring of resources used per unit, ensuring reduction. We have gone beyond just sales out our products to encouraging our customers to recycling of all packaging materials and we are looking at ways to reduce consumers’ energy and water consumption.


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