Dean Agansi (2nd left) interacting with representatives of some organisations after the event
Ghanaian-owned international bank based in the City of London, Ghana International Bank (GHIB), has spent about £1.5m on various health projects and social intervention activities in Ghana over the past years.
The activities undertaken under the bank’s foundation range from free surgeries for cleft and palate lips, provision of audiology equipment to the 37 Military Hospital, building of public toilet facility for the Kwahu Tafo community.
Other activities included the provision of musical equipment, Braille embosser for the Akropong School for the Blind, as well as the renovation of the girls’ dormitory, provision of a generator and tables and chairs for the school.
The Koforidua School for the Deaf also received grants to undertake various activities in the school.
Speaking at a corporate social responsibility (CSR) meeting in Accra, Dean Agansi, Managing Director of GHIB, observed that the bank has contributed one per cent of its pre-tax profit to the foundation to carry out its activities over the years.
He indicated that 20 per cent of the funds go to health, with 53 per cent going to educational activities and the difference to poverty alleviation and livelihood enhancement.
Proposals
The event saw beneficiary organisations sharing with the audience the benefit they have derived from the grant.
Lieutenant Mary Tumpi, an audiologist at the 37 Military Hospital, spoke about the impact the new audiology machine at the health facility is having on services delivered.
She said the centre—one of the only two facilities that care for various forms of hearing impairment in the country— was using an old audiology machine prior to the provision of the new equipment by the foundation.
“We perform hearing assessment for individuals who have been recruited into the security services so you can imagine the pressure on the old machine which often breaks down. Now that we have this machine we can care for them more efficiently,” she said.
Other organisations like The House of Francis, Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Matthew 25 among others, also used the occasion to make presentations aimed at soliciting grants from the foundation.
Mr. Agansi said the proposals would go through the process, adding that the trustees would meet to go through the proposals and depending on the funding the foundation has projected, grants would be awarded.
By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri