Giving Back to the Society
Standard Life Organization (SLO) has always been engrossed in alleviating the sufferings of the financially challenged individuals through various financial empowerment programmes and humanitarian gestures in the form of educational support, kitchen support initiative, pandemic palliatives, free feeding programme, building women’s business capacities and free health outreach. Since 2010, the organization has supported the education of many primary and secondary school children from various relatively poor homes. Over 100 sessions of capacity building have been held in partnership with the National Productivity Centres, touching the lives of over 220,000 participants. In the ordinary operations of our day-to-day activities, the continuous training of our members on the skills to sustaining small businesses has become a norm. We have served more than 10,000 women, men and children with our free health programmes in the various locations of our operations to date. As such, we have worked with the various Primary Health Centres, Government and Private Hospitals in bringing about effective medical advocacy; free medical testing, treatment and referrals. Very recently, we have consolidated our partnership with the Edo State Primary Health Care Development Agency (EDSPHCDA) on free health care services.
On Monday, the 25th of April, 2022, Standard Life Organization celebrated the World Malaria Day with over 300 individuals benefiting from the medical largesse of the organization. Specifically, attendees were taken through vital sign tests in addition to malaria test. All 120 persons who tested positive to malaria were treated by the medical personnel from EDSPHCDA while SLO footed the bills. Mosquito Bed Nets were shared to attendees after being lectured by the medical team on the strategies to preventing malaria. Food was provided for every child, woman and man who graced the occasion.
It suffices to say that SLO participates in all United Nations special days that target the poor and vulnerable such as:
- Women’s Day,
- World Malaria Day
- International Widows Day,
- Micro, Medium – sized Enterprise Day
- International Day of Rural Women
- World Food Day
- International Day for Eradication of Poverty
These international days are embedded in the yearly events of SLO. Some of the humanitarian activities carried out by SLO in the recent past include:
- Provision of free medical assistance to 57 women in Benin City in March, 2022.
- Building business capacities of over 1000 women across towns and villages in Edo and Delta states of Nigeria in March, 2022.
- Provision of various food items to 70 widows, elderly and women of Eyangie Community on Oregbeni Quatres of Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria in December, 2021
- Feeding of 150 destitute along Mission Road in Benin City during the World Food Day celebration of 2021.
- Training of 291 Medium Enterprises on Digital solutions to Local Businesses in August, 2021
- Launching of Kitchen Support Initiative across Edo and Cross River States. Women were given giant steel pots for kitchen use and rental purpose to support feeding.
- Presentation of cheques to at least 20 families to support their children’s education at primary and secondary levels across South-South States in Nigeria in 2021.
During the early and lock down stages of the Corona Virus pandemic, Standard Life distributed hand wash soaps, sanitizers and nose masks to over 10,000 women and staff to prevent the spread of the virus. At Oregbeni community, aged women and widows were given food items to cushion the effect of the partial lock down in Edo State. The organization is currently working with the Edo State Market Women Association on ways of boosting their businesses through financing and purchasing of income generating assets which was launched in October, 2021.
