BiP supports international educational efforts
BiP Solutions is helping some of the poorest children in the world improve their education and their hopes for the future.
Staff recently took part in a charitable dress-down day, inspired by the BBC’s Children in Need appeal, donating money towards building, renovating, furnishing and equipping classrooms in poverty-stricken countries
BiP’s donation will be used by Oxfam to help build, renovate and maintain classrooms in Datu Pindililang Elementary School in Maguindanao in the Philippines. The area was riddled by conflict for more than ten years, causing massive displacement and loss of lives and properties. However, as peace has come to the region, the school is always full, and when the children are not in classes, the building is used by the community as a meeting point and gathering place.
BiP’s donation will also be used to help young students in Kenya learn. Almost 300 textbooks will be sent to the Mashimoni Squatters primary school, helping to give children in one of Africa’s poorest areas a chance to access education for many years to come.
The funds were raised through BiP’s ‘Home and Away’ community activity programme, an ongoing programme through which BiP supports a variety of charitable and social responsibility activities.
Ron Burges, CEO of BiP Solutions, said: “BiP Solutions is very aware of its responsibilities towards others – particularly those living in some of the poorest areas of the world.
“I am delighted that BiP staff have participated so enthusiastically in our community activity programme. Through donations such as these, we can take positive steps to help children and young adults across the world achieve what is so often taken for granted here.”
