Rosabon financial services, a development finance institution has empowered over 1,500 small and medium enterprise, SME operators spread across Lagos and Rivers States. This was part of the company’s 2015 Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives.

The SME operators were empowered with umbrellas. Rosabon said the gesture was “to encourage the hard working men and women of the marketplace by ensuring that they are well protected against the elements.”

The Rosabon team distributed the over 1, 500 Umbrellas in the most populated marketplaces in Lagos in areas like the Yaba market, Oyingbo, Lagos Island, Bariga, Orile and in Artillery Junction, Airforce Junction, Rumuola, Garrison, Oil Mill Junction in Portharcourt.

Speaking about the initiative, Head of Strategy and Marketing, Rosabon Nigeria, Chidimma Onyeokoro, said: “At Rosabon, we are passionate about community building and development, and we never allow the economic climate to affect our commitment to our customers and our community. In 2014, we embarked on a series of community building drives, and this year we plan to increase this with several initiatives planned by the team.”

Recall that the company recently launched its new customer friendly website and celebrated the end of the year with daily mobile phone giveaways and a star prize of all expense paid trip for three lucky customers to holiday destinations.

It had also embarked on notable Customer social responsibility drives like its health focused initiatives like the distribution of state of the art IT learning systems and relief materials to the management of Heart of Gold Hospital Surulere and the Little Saint Orphanage, Palm groove, and financial literacy focused initiatives like training camps and meetups.