MRM Ltd is a company that believes in ploughing back some of its earnings into projects that benefit the community. The firm is involved in a cross-section of community based activities ranging from education, environment, health, sports and civic services that are not only beneficial to residents of Mariakani, where the factory is based, but also to those from other surrounding coastal areas and the country at large.

HEALTH

MRM sponsors regular medical camps organized by the Lions’ Club of Pwani in Mariakani and surrounding towns, where poor locals are treated for different common ailments.
MRM runs a medical clinic for its staff members, which is also open to the residents of Mariakani. Members of the public who are treated at the clinic are only charged a token amount that is inclusive of consultancy and medication costs thus making the needed medical services affordable.
MRM also works with various other community based organizations in promoting good health.

EDUCATION

MRM has played a role in education by offering scholarships to bright students who are pursuing higher education; sponsoring physically challenged children alongside assisting in providing required facilities to poorly equipped schools.

Managed under the MRM-European Investment Bank (EIB) Trust, the company has established a technical school that will offer vocational training to school leavers from around Mariakani and the surrounding areas. With technical collaboration coming from Don Bosco Schools, the center will offer courses in Computer, Motor Winding, Welding and Fabrication Technology, Tailoring, Sewing Machine Operation and Workshop Machine Operation among other courses.

SHELTER

MRM also plays a significant role in poverty alleviation through partnering up with like-minded organizations to provide decent housing to the under privileged.
A major project in this area is a partnership with Habitat for Humanity, through whom MRM is working to provide decent housing for poor families in rural Kenya. This partnership targets to build 500 units per annum.
Initiatives to provide low cost housing units to low and middle level income earners in Kenya as well as low cost class-rooms are also being worked on between MRM, Government departments and independent contractors.
MRM continuously makes roofing sheets available at highly subsidized rates to needy institutions and has supported numerous cases through this system.

CIVIC SERVICES

Several activities have also been undertaken to support the Government in offering civic services. Some of these include, building of bus–shelters countrywide, rehabilitation and maintenance of public utilities including the popular Mombasa Elephant Tusks, beautification and maintenance of the of the Changamwe roundabout in Mombasa, Pangani roundabout and Limuru Road in Nairobi. Environmental concern forms an integral part of MRM’s philosophy which is practiced through our production processes as well as through
our direct efforts to upgrade environmental standards in the cities.

SPORTS

MRM has also not been left behind in sports as it has a soccer team, Mabati Rolling Mills Football Club, that is currently in the national super league. The team is used to tap talent amongst the local youth and expose them to the possibility of big time football careers.
MRM also organizes friendly football matches between its team and other football clubs around the country, providing constructive social activities to young Kenyans.
MRM also actively sponsors various Golf tournaments aimed at community development projects.
In a nutshell MRM has engaged in and supported numerous social welfare projects in its endeavor to be a responsible corporate citizen, and will continue to do so as this forms a vital part of the firms strategy for long term sustainable development.