Lucky Cement takes CSR initiative in Darra Pezu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
29th July 2011, Karachi : Lucky Cement has planned to construct a world-class primary school, near its factory in Pezu, District Lakki Marwat, in partnership with a renowned NGO, chartered by the Government of Pakistan and endorsed by the World Bank.
This school will be affiliated with Pakistan’s well known school system and will provide quality education to the children of the area. In first phase, the company will establish a primary school, which will later be upgraded to secondary education.
Apart from this project, Lucky Cement is continuously striving to uplift the living standards of people by providing regular funds to 16-bed, Women and Children Hospital (WCH) – Ghazni Khel, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) and is also running a well-managed dispensary, at the Pezu Plant site for providing medical facilities and treatment to the patients at highly subsidized rates.
Lucky cement has also laid down a 9 Km long water supply line providing clean drinking water facility to around 2,000 households in the rural localities situated in Darra Pezu town and a well-maintained primary school, up to class five, for the children of the factory workers.
The school is registered with Benu Education Board and provides quality and free of cost education to the children of employees. In recent past the company also provided transformers for uninterrupted supply of electricity to the localities in the outskirts of Pezu District. Recently, the company also contributed towards the renovation and upgrading of the DI Khan Airport.
Lucky Cement, Pakistan’s largest cement manufacturer is not only a leader in business practices, but also stands ahead in social welfare work.