As per its CSR mission statement and policy, Tanga Cement Company sets aside 1% of profit before tax for Tanzanian community development programmes. In 2010 the company supported various community development activities in the four major focus areas of Health, Education, Community Development and the Environment. Also, the Company continued it’s commitment to support Tanga Business Against Crime – a CTI Tanga outreach initiative whose aim is to make Tanga a safer place in which to live and conduct business. The Company also supported Tanga Region Road Safety Committee with the road safety week.

Social investments made during the year include:
Saunyi Village in Kilindi District
Tanga Cement Company built a multipurpose hall, a kitchen, washrooms and ablution facilities. The Company built this to facilitate the education of Maasai girls in this very remote area. The facility can accommodate 120-150 students. Women Empowerment Development Association (WEDA) The Company built and furnished two classrooms and toilets for this Association. The Association deals with empowering women in Muheza district as well as mitigating the impact of orphans
education and vulnerable children. About 200 vulnerable children and orphans as a result of HIV/AIDS are taken care of by this Association.

Kind Heart Africa – Home for Street Children
Tanga Cement Company contributed twenty tons of cement to the organisation. The cement was used to build an orphanage in Chanika, Dar es Salaam.

Rosmini Secondary School
A hundred tons of cement was donated to the expansion program of this leading secondary school in the Tanga region. Mruwia Secondary School The Company built one classroom and donated a total of twenty five desks with chairs. The school is in Moshi rural district, Kilimanjaro region.

Friends of Serengeti
Tanga Cement Company has been working closely with the Friends of Serengeti for a number of years. In 2010, Tanga Cement donated five hundred bags of cement for environmental preservation in the Serengeti and Tarangire National Parks. The
cement was used to construct boreholes and to repair and maintain crossing drifts.

Tanga Region Authority
Tanga Cement Company donated two hundred and fifty bags of cement for building biogas plants at Pingoni area in the Tanga region.

Emboreet Village
Twenty five tons of cement was donated to this village. The cement was used to support the village authority’s initiatives to solve educational problems that have beset various schools in Simanjiro.

A total of Tzs 221million was spent in 2010 for various projects in the country. In the projects that the Company supported during the year, emphasis was given to the key market areas.