CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
The Kamida Sunflower Business was mooted as a three-faced social enterprise modeled to address food-security, job creation and as a business, support the sustainability of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in primary schools in Migori County through its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program.
The business aims to addresses food insecurity and joblessness by growing sunflower as cash crop, intercropping with other food crops and steering value addition to secure food security. This will create jobs in the value chain especially for women and youths. The business is pegged on a strong CSR that supports football and WASH in public primary schools through a public private partnership (PPP) arrangement to enhance better learning environment, improve health and academic performance of school going children.
In addition by producing virgin sunflower oil we hope to enhance health and remedy many diseases associated with chemically produced oils currently flooding our markets and furthermore, to use the power of sports to unleash the agribusiness potential of Migori County – our motto thus “The Pride of Migori: enriching lives through every drop of Sunflower Oil.’’
