Arab Contractors Donates UGX 75M to Fight Covid-19 in Uganda

The Arab Contractors, Egyptian Civil Engineering company, has joined the Ugandan government in fighting the novel COVID-19, which has claimed almost 1.8 million lives globally.

Arab Contractors donated to the Ugandan Ministry of Health 75 million Uganda shillings in supporting the Covid-19 response in the East African country.

On its part, the Ministry of Health hailed the Egyptian company for the donation, thanking the nice gesture reflecting the human spirit of the company.

Several firms and organizations continue to send their donations to the National Response Fund to support the effort exerted by the Ugandan government to curb Covid-19 as well as equipping health workers and helping vulnerable inpiduals.

The Egyptian company is committed to its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), initiative since it boosts the company's image and build its brand.

Many firms, like the Arab Contractors, are increasingly ramping up their focus on CSR, supporting health causes, championing women rights, protecting the environment and playing great role in eliminating poverty locally, nationally or globally.

The massive Egyptian construction and contracting company (also known as “Mokawloon Al Arab”) is headed by Engineer Mohammed Mohsen Salah. The company is running several infrastructure projects in the Sub-Saharan Africa, including Uganda, Tanzania and Cameroon.

It is worth noting that “Mokawloon Al Arab” was awarded the best contracting company prize by the Ugandan Vice President Edward Sekandi in 2018 for the role of implementing developmental projects in Uganda according to the international standards in terms of quality and performance.

The company began its insurance procedures for the receipt of the work site of the project of Stiegler George Dam, the largest dam in Tanzania, and signed a consortium with Elsewedy Company at a cost of about $2.9 billion. The dam will be built on the Basin of Rufiji River as an important national project to generate power.

The company also signed a contract with Cameroon for the construction of a stretch of the Sangmélima-Ouesso cross-border road, which is meant to link Cameroon to the Republic of Congo. This contract would run for over a 20-month-period.