By Stephen G. Fellajuah
Margibi, Liberia; July 25, 2025 – Salala Rubber Company (SRC) and its subsidiary, Jeety Rubber, have donated a totally outfitted ambulance to employees and residents of Margibi County District #5, in a significant enhance to healthcare entry within the area. The donation, made on July 23, 2025, is a part of the businesses’ ongoing company social accountability (CSR) efforts.
The ambulance, offered throughout a ceremony attended by native officers and group leaders, is anticipated to offer important emergency medical providers not solely to firm workers, but additionally to surrounding communities.
With the closest hospital or firm clinic positioned hours away, particularly throughout wet season when roads are difficult to navigate, the ambulance fills an important hole in emergency response.
“This ambulance will save lives,” mentioned Upjit Singh Sachdeva, CEO of SRC and Jeety Rubber. “We anticipate quicker response occasions for medical emergencies and improved entry to specialised look after severe circumstances that require fast hospital consideration.”
The automobile is outfitted with trendy medical gear, together with oxygen tanks, defibrillators, and emergency drugs. The businesses have additionally skilled native healthcare workers to function and keep the logistics successfully.
Past healthcare, SRC and Jeety Rubber additionally launched a brand-new 24-seated college bus to move employees’ kids and college students from close by villages to varsities within the space. The transfer goals to enhance college attendance charges and handle transportation challenges, significantly through the wet season.
“Many kids needed to stroll a number of kilometers to high school,” mentioned Irene Darwolor, Chairlady of Baypolou. “This bus service will guarantee constant college attendance and cut back dropout charges considerably.”
The bus service will function on a hard and fast schedule, masking a number of villages and guaranteeing protected, dependable transportation for college kids.
In an additional present of dedication to native improvement, the businesses additionally renovated and devoted a brand new city corridor for the folks of Barpolu. The upgraded facility options assembly rooms, workplace house for regional leaders, and a big meeting corridor for group occasions.
“Having a correct city corridor means our group can manage higher, maintain conferences with dignity, and have an area the place our voices might be heard,” added Darwolor.
Moreover, the businesses have accomplished the set up of 58 solar-powered avenue lights throughout 56 cities and villages surrounding the Salala Rubber Company’s operational areas. The lighting mission addresses longstanding safety considerations and permits prolonged social and financial actions after darkish.
These newest contributions are a part of SRC and Jeety Rubber’s broader CSR technique to enhance dwelling circumstances of employees and residents in Margibi County District #3 and past. The businesses already function medical clinics offering primary healthcare, vaccinations, and maternal well being help to employees and surrounding communities.
They’ve additionally drilled boreholes and put in faucet water techniques to offer entry to scrub ingesting water in cities reminiscent of Weala, considerably lowering danger of waterborne diseases. Modifying by Jonathan Browne
