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Being "socially responsible" entails all persons acting ethically organization and the team continues to look for more creative
and sensitively toward social, economic, and environmental ways to support the immediate community and strengthen
challenges. It is about personal responsible behaviors and their alignment with the value of teamwork!
Being "socially PSR IS DRIVEN awareness of the influence of our activities and actions on
responsible" entails all others, our communities, and the environment.
persons acting ethically BY CSR –
and sensitively toward OILSERV GROUP
social, economic, and
environmental EXAMPLE.
challenges. It is about
personal responsible
behaviors and awareness Evelyn Enemuo
of the influence of our Human Resources Intern,
activities and actions on Oilserv Limited
others, our communities,
and the environment.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) emerged in reference to society's growing need for more responsible,
ethical, transparent, and respectable public and private companies that strategically impact society. Oilserv
Group has been able to play functional CSR roles in achieving the aim of the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) through the Sir Emeka Okwuosa Foundation (SEOF), to provide an equitable education, road
construction, erosion control, provision of water, electricity, quality healthcare and scholarship within identified
communities/states in Nigeria.

Over the years, the group has:
• Donated food items, mini-grants, and machinery
to encourage productivity, empower businesses,
and bring households out of obscurity and poverty
Employees of the Oilserv
annually.
Group have shown an
• Provided high-quality educational tools and
understanding of this concept
supported 1500+ young talents in Secondary
and have proactively engaged
schools through our scholarship program, the
in philanthropic initiatives and
annual prize-giving ceremony.
cultures that have greatly
• Built a 600-seater secondary school for young girls
impacted the society and
in Nigeria, and constructed link roads.
environment. This was evident
• at the height of the pandemic in 2020, the group
in the recent voluntary Blood
launched a public awareness campaign to assist
drive initiative for Dame Irene
the Nigerian government in responding to the
Okwuosa Memorial Hospital
pandemic through, risk awareness campaigns
(DIOMH) by Oilserv employees
and donations of food supplies and other relief
on 28th of October,2022 as
materials across various communities in the
part of their contribution to
country.
the CSR activities of Oilserv
• Recently established a cardio-thoracic hospital
Group.
that has seasoned medical professionals from the
Furthermore, employees donate food items, clothes, their
VOOM Foundation, USA, and has conducted drives a corresponding growth in Personal Social
time, and other relief materials to orphanages and elderly
free open-heart surgeries, donated drugs to health Responsibility (PSR) of its employees that is aligned
homes, annually as part of their PSR year-end outreach
centers and hospitals around the country, and with the organization’s values.
driven by the in-house fellowship.
delivered first-class medical services.
PSR is a moral concept that individual employees
I would like to conclude by highlighting that this selfless venture
Typically, a company that delivers Corporate Social (in addition to the Corporate) have a responsibility to
by the Oilserv employees is driven by the CSR spirit of the
Responsibility (CSR) as a sustainability goal, society.
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