Hyundai Empowers Schools With ICT Labs

• Hyundai Empowers Schools With ICT Labs

Hyundai Motors Nigeria Limited has commenced the inauguration of ultra-modern Information Communication Technology laboratories in select public schools and colleges across the country, in line with the company’s global cardinal objective of ‘moving the world together’.

The automaker stated that the project was aimed at exercising the company’s corporate social responsibility principles of supporting grassroots education and enhancing human resources development.

The Managing Director, Stallion Hyundai Motors Nigeria Limited, Parvir Singh, was quoted in a statement by the company to have said in his keynote address at the inauguration of the ICT laboratory at Vetland Senior Grammar School Oko-Oba, Agege, Lagos that the project also sought to improve the lives of the people under a development-oriented and sustainable movement.

Singh, who was represented by the company’s Head of Sales and Marketing, Gaurav Vashisht, said the initiative was crucial to Hyundai corporate social values of touching lives and being a customer-centric organisation.

He added that the event was also being held simultaneously in several parts of the world with other Hyundai dealerships.

He stated that no fewer than eight schools and colleges in Lagos, Abuja and Port-Harcourt were select beneficiaries of the ultra-modern ICT gadgets, which included the installation of 20 desktop computers each.

“We therefore hope this project will impact directly hundreds of thousands of lives in Lagos and several other communities in Port-Harcourt and Abuja,” he said.

The Lagos State Tutor General/Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Adebunmi Adekanye, who inaugurated the facility, was quoted to have said the recipient schools had their ICT labs equipped.

The schools, according to her, are Vetland Senior Grammar School Oko-Oba, Agege; Ipakodo Senior Grammar School, Ikorodu; Kuramo Senior College, Victoria Island; and Fazi-l-Omar High School, Iwaya-Yaba.