Corporate Social Responsibility
Sony Sugar has created a business model that is not shy about creating benefits for its stakeholders. At the same time, the company has kept an eye on the various social issues that surround the community in which we operate.
Roads Infrastructure
In the last five years, over Ksh.600M has been invested in the construction and maintenance of extensive roads, bridges and drainages. The SonySugar sugarcane belt has a total road network of over 700 kilometers. We strive to reduce cane transport distances through construction of bridges. Company assists in construction of access roads to schools, churches and markets.
At the moment the company has a put in place a plan to construct 19 bridges within the sugarcane growing zone. So far nine bridges are complete, two are under construction and eight more are in the tendering process.
Health
The company supports the local community through provision of health care facilities and support at the medical centre through preventive health campaigns, education and screening facilities. As Corporate Social Responsibility, the health facility extends its services to the surrounding community through provision of health services such as:-
- Compressive Care Centre (CCC)
- Voluntary Male Circumcision (VMC)
- Maternal Child Health Care (MCH)
- Family Planning (FP)
- Consultation
- Referral
- Nursing care
- Laboratory Diagnosis
- Drug dispensing
Education
There exists an elaborate company school assistance programme with an annual budget of over Kshs.67 million in the current financial year that supports two company owned schools(SonySugar Complex School and SonySugar Nursery School) and one public institution(SonySugar Primary School) within the estate.
Environmental Conservation
SonySugar is also involved in environmental conservation activities which have seen the company being certified in Environmental Management System (EMS) by Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS). The company extends its environmental policy to the local community by providing seedlings to the local community and cane farmers for planting.