Officials of uniBank’s Corporate Affairs Department display the awards
UniBank’s position as one of the foremost practitioners of CSR in Ghana was affirmed when it received the CSR Bank of the Year and CSR Initiative/Campaign of the Year accolade at the 7th Ghana CSR Excellence Awards held in Accra under the auspices of the Centre for CSR West Africa.
The CSR Excellence Awards is a nifty platform modeled on the European CSR Awards with multistakeholder- participation, which measures companies’ compliance to best practices in CSR and sustainability, especially their impact-driven interventions and projects across Ghana.
uniBank Ghana Limited beat off strong competition from over 30 banks with its flagship programme on health, the Operation Smile Project.
Through this benevolent act, uniBank partnered Operation Smile Ghana, an International Medical Charity Organisation, to perform free surgical operations on 150 patients born with cleft lips and cleft palate, the 3rd commonest birth defect in the world.
This birth defect, which is increasingly spreading within some rural and urban areas in the country, causes speech abnormalities and breathing problems sometimes resulting in death.
The bank, through its vivacious One Ghana Project, crafted meaningful change in our communities through monthly donations was acknowledged.
Kojo Williams, Lead Project Manager and co-founder of the Centre, indicated that the GHACEA awards is one of the most important awards that all organisations with the impetus to help in the development of Ghana should aspire to win, and thus congratulated uniBank for the delightful societal interventions.
He posited that it’s no longer acceptable for businesses to concentrate only on profit making but also show commitment to the Ghanaian populace, environment and society by implementing sustainable projects that inure to the benefit of society.
Acknowledging the certificate of honour, Clifford Duke Mettle, Executive Director, indicated that uniBank is ardent in providing support to entities whose mission anchors on education, youth development and healthcare for the underprivileged, stating that “undertaking CRS initiatives are fundamental to us, as it delights us to see lives affected positively.”