Ecobank employees donate to Potter’s Orphanage Home, four others

Employees and management of Ecobank Ghana PLC, through its maiden ‘Employees Volunteerism’ programme, have donated to the Potter’s Orphanage Home in Accra.

Items donated included sanitary wear, bags of rice, millet, beans and drinks.

Speaking at the programme, acting Managing Director-Ecobank, Joana Mensah, indicated that the bank remains committed to playing important roles in communities as a meaningful contributor to development of the African continent in line with its overall corporate vision.

“This programme gives us the unique opportunity to partly execute an important social contract that exists between us and our stakeholders, in the name of corporate social responsibility (CSR),” she said.

She added that even though ordinarily the bank makes corporate donations and engages in many CSR programmes, this particular event was different. “The event mobilised 1,264 Ecobank Ghana employees to make personal contributions toward this ceremony.

“Under this initiative, Ecobank employees will make cash and kind contributions annually, aimed at making donations to identifiable institutions in deprived communities around the country. The bank will also supplement all such contributions as part of its broader CSR activities for the year,” Ms. Mensah said.

The Acting Manager further indicated that similar donations are being made simultaneously at four other locations in Weija, Dodowa and Madina, all in the Greater Accra Region, and Suntreso in the Ashanti Region – valued at about GH¢280,000 in total.

Donations at the other four centres include provision of water-tanks, pumps and detergents, among others. Beneficiary institutions include the Weija Leprosarium, where the bank donated a visitor’s shed, medical supplies, furniture, toiletries, detergents, a sewing machine and food for female residents.

Others are the payment of 1-year medical bills for three critically-ill inmates at the Sekondi Female Prison; and settlement of medical bills for expectant mothers, new mothers and needy children at the Church of Pentecost Hospital in Madina and the Suntreso Hospital in Kumasi.

In appreciation, Executive Director for Potter’s Orphanage Home, Nana Ama Adu Owusu Asamoah, thanked Ecobank and used the opportunity to call on other institutions to come to their aid.

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