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Article

22 Aug 2013

Author:
Haggai Matsiko, Oil in Uganda

Corporate Social Responsibility: Filling the gap in service delivery [Uganda]

“Thanks to the oil, we are getting better facilities. The government used to take us as if we were foreigners, we were not getting these services,” says Henry Irumba, LC 1 Chairman at Kaiso landing site, Hoima District. “We used to walk about three kilometers to get drinking water, it was not easy,” recalls Joyce Asaba, a resident of Kalolo...Mr. Irumba’s joy is from a satellite primary school that Tullow Oil is building to replace the wooden classroom blocks that currently make up Kaiso Primary school. Joyce, on the other hand, is referring to a borehole that was built by Tullow Oil, opposite the Kasemene 3 well in Buliisa, one of the first projects the company established for the fishing village...[T]his community has also benefited from other CSR interventions by Tullow, in health and education...Tullow’s other partners, Total and CNOOC, have also invested substantial amounts of money in social projects in the Albertine...