Nestle Restates Commitment To Empowering People, Ensuring Good Life For All, Environmental Sustainability
Victoria Uwadoka
Nestle Nigeria, has reiterated its commitment to empowering people within its operating communities, ensuring a good life for all today and in the future as well as the preservation of the environment for the future generations.
Corporate Affairs Manager, Nestle Nigeria, Victoria Uwadoka, said this in her opening remark to mark the commencement of this year’s training for journalists covering Health, Agriculture, Business and Environment jointly organised by Nestle Nigeria and the Lagos Business School Sustainability Centre (LBSSC) yesterday.
The training with theme “Advancing Nutrition, Health and Environmental Awareness through the Media” which started in 2019 by Nestlé Nigeria Plc and LBS Sustainability Centre is an online course designed to enhance Journalists understanding and reporting on Nutrition, Health, Environment, and other sustainable development issues in Nigeria.
Victoria who expressed delight for being part of the event again this year, thanked journalists for their participation and the LBS Sustainability Centre for their commitment to the training just as she highlighted the importance of the training for the journalists, Nestle as an organization and the society at large.
She spoke on why Nestle is committed to the people, their wellbeing, their host communities and the environment, and why they are more interested in nutrition, health and the environment.
She said Nestle is interested in all these because it helps people to make the right choices when it comes to nutrition, health matters, and environmental issues.
Uwadoka also highlighted various initiatives embarked upon by the company to ensure a good life for the people, economic growth as well as environmental sustainability.
According to her, “Nestle is committed to enhancing the quality of life for everyone today and for the future generation that is why we are interested in nutrition, health and environment. People may ask what does health got to do with nutrition. You are really what you eat. If you are eating well from your, then you will have better adulthood. If you start eating well now, you might actually claim back some of the damages that may have been done because we made the wrong choices but for us to make the right choices, we need the right information and we can work together to ensure that we have the right information.”
“We are delighted that we have the opportunity to do this from the feedbacks we received from our participants in the past cohorts. Indeed it has been helpful; it has created opportunities for us to share our practices, to learn from one another, and understand the new thinking around how to improve health outcomes, environmental sustainability, and nutrition awareness within our communities.
“This is one of the initiatives which is part of our doing business – which is by creating shared value with everyone that is part of our ecosystem – right from the farmers who produce the crops in the field to our people working in the company who ensure that this quality product is made available to the people.
“It is our conviction that the business cannot actually thrive if the environment in which the business is operating is not thriving. It is important that our communities are growing and progressing,” she stated.
Victoria said creating shared value concept is the concept Nestle as a company has practised in the past 12 years and found out that it works.
“Nestle Nigeria have this full commitment around ensuring that we are creating an ecosystem where everybody is included within. In our environment, for instance, we have a crèche; we have the breastfeeding room where women can go and breastfeed their children and get back to work quicker than if there were no such facilities around. We also teach our women the benefit of exclusive breastfeeding and how to take care of their babies. Why we are doing all this within our working environment is we want other people to know. We want this to be a standard amongst companies in Nigeria.
2022 training has been segmented into two streams, the first stream which started on Monday, April 11 will end on April 26, 2022; while the second stream will begin on May 16 and ends on May 27, 2022.
