ASA Savings and Loans as part of its corporate social responsibility has instituted a scholarship scheme to cater for the educational needs of wards or children of contributors to the company’s scheme.
A total of twenty pupils drawn from primary and junior high schools benefitted from the scholarship scheme.
Mr. Aourongjeb, MD, ASA Savings and Loans Ghana, in his remarks said the company’s focus was to provide financial services to assist people in the formal and informal sectors that were constrained with financial assistance to establish their own business or to expand their existing business as well as to meet their financial obligation.
“But also, on the social side there is the need to contribute its quota in the well-being of people living in communities it operates. The scholarship scheme is one which will not to be truncated anytime soon, so far as they operate in the country,” he said.
The scheme coincided with a health screening which targeted not only clients of the company but the entire community of Lapaz, Darkuman, Nyamekye, Akweteyman, Apenkwa and its environs
The screening included hepatitis B, eye test, blood pressure, sugar level and malaria prevalence. Meanwhile, the company has set aside US$ 75,000 to support the communities in which it operates and provide support in educational needs.
In attendance was Mr. Dirk Brouwer, CEO, ASA International, who was optimistic about the country’s financial market and their eagerness to expand into newer regions of the country to do business.
The beneficiaries were grateful for the support from the company and assured them of taking their studies seriously to become great leaders in future. ASA is a member of the Ghana Club 100 and was ranked 17th in the industry awards in the year 2016.
By Times Reporter
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