The FAPCL Group Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Our CSR is an integration of business operations and values, whereby the interests of all stakeholders including investors, customers, employees, the community and the environment are reflected in the company’s policies and actions. FAPCL Group recognizes that our organization has the potential to make a significant impact on its staff, customers, society and the environment. Our CSR is born from the desire to formalize the good practice and attitudes already inherent in our staff and share them with our customers, suppliers and our environment for the benefit of all. The success of our CSR programme is intertwined with the success and enthusiasm of everyone involved in our CSR project, both of the FAPCL Group stakeholders and our external clients.
First Lady’s Drought Mitigation Initiative
Earlier in 2017, the Kenyan Government made a public plea to well wishers to donate funds that would be used to combat negative effects of the ravaging drought that has affected the greater majority of residents living in northern Kenya. The country needed at least Sh1 billion to meet the deficit and sustain starving Kenyans up to the onset of the long rains. Taking the burden to raise the funds personally, First Lady Margaret Kenyatta called on Kenyans and corporations to support initiatives aimed at mitigating the effects of the drought.
FAPCL Group CEO, Martin Dias, heeded the call from the First Lady and on behalf of the company and the Board of Directors presented a cheque of Kshs 250,000 towards the initiative. The First lady passed her personal gratitude and also warmly thanked the company on behalf of the President for its support in the initiative.
Inset image: FAPCL Group CEO, Martin Dias, presenting a dummy cheque to the First Lady
FAPCL Group Partnership with the Earth Angels
Kenya’s Earth Angels are a group of women based in Nairobi, working to help abandoned, physically and mentally disabled, orphaned and the poorest of poor children, living in orphanages and homes run by non-governmental agencies. The Earth Angels team has been leading a collaborative community initiative in Kenya that helps reduce the impact of poverty on children and helps improve their lives in meaningful ways.
They work with nonprofit Kenyan organisations and individual donors that support these children who are abandoned, mentally and physically disabled and orphaned. Their latest project includes supporting schools for children who cannot afford to join Government primary schools and providing mosquito nets in the Nyakach area of Kisumu County. FAPCL Group has become a partner donor towards the Earth Angels’ initiatives
Braeburn Careers Evening
Braeburn is a Nairobi based international school. They offer value, celebrate diversity and develop students through a holistic educational approach.
Over the years, FAPCL Group has embraced the opportunity to speak to students though general information sessions and one-on-one interviews covering what they could expect from careers in real estate. The students have been part of the cohorts that were preparing their subject choices for their IGCSEs. It was therefore an important time of contemplation in the students’ lives with FAPCL Group staff serving as advisors by offering their insights and support.
Inset Image: Part of the FAPCL Group staff at the Careers evening awaiting to speak to the pupils of Braeburn School.
Tree Planting at Mang’u High School
Mang’u High School is a Kiambu County based Kenyan Roman Catholic National High School which was established in 1925. The school has evolved to having some of the nations top performers in the KCSE exams.
FAPCL Group is part of an increasing number of Kenyan firms that value the importance of environmental conservation. Through an initiative with the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) Foundation, FAPCL Group sponsored the planting of trees on the Mang’u High School campus as part of the pledge to plant one million trees is 2018/2019.
Inset Image: FAPCL Group CEO, Martin Dias (holding shovel), helps plant a tree at Mang’u High School