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Globally, Accenture invests heavily in training and developing employees and this culture of learning directly influences its view of corporate citizenship.
In Nigeria, computer facilities and skills remain scarce and any training undertaken is largely theoretical. Accenture is helping bridge the digital divide in Nigeria by providing secondary school students with an opportunity to gain invaluable computer skills. This was the reason the company donated computers and a skilled teacher to Victoria Island Junior Secondary School, a local public secondary school.
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This addition to the school's facilities has greatly improved the student's opportunity to acquire meaningful skills that will see them through many years of education ahead. To ensure this investment translates directly into these meaningful skills, Accenture funded an appropriately trained teacher for the next year to ensure learning is maximised.
The opening day of the computer classroom was 24th March 2006. It was attended by two senior members of the Lagos Ministry of Education who reiterated the importance of improving Nigeria's computer education for future high performance and they also noted this was the first such donation made to a school in Lagos state. "Education. You're not going to get the population to move up without it," says Usen Udoh, a senior executive of Accenture, who also attended the opening. "With our passion for learning and the skills available through our people, it makes sense to focus our corporate citizenship activities on education and skills development."