CAL Bank Limited has donated a total of GH?57,000 in cheque to a number of orphanages, NGOs and other institutions as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Accra.
The institutions include Awuah-Darko Foundation, a breast cancer awareness and treatment NGO; the Physical Education department of Presby Boys Senior High School; Ghana National Trust Fund; Gyase Divisional Council; Respcare Aid Foundation; and the Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
The rest of the beneficiaries include Dr. Joyce Aryee and Dr. Samuel Koranteng-Pipim for their book-launch and leadership lectures, and Sophia Antwiwaa — a hole-in-heart victim.
Managing Director of the bank, Frank B. Adu Jnr., said the aim of the donation is in fulfilment of their CSR programmes.
?Our CSR activities are geared toward health and children; particularly destitute children, breast-cancer, burns, hole-in-heart, and orphanages because the world is generally about human beings. We always want to help people in dire need, and also reduce poverty.
He added that about 70% of the bank?s CSR programme is dedicated to orphanages.
?We care about children a lot. It is just good to help these children become what they want to become; because at the end of the day, if we don?t, they will become miscreants and society will be the loser,? he said.
On behalf of the beneficiaries, Dr. Joyce Aryee thanked the bank and urged it to continue doing its best for the society.
The beneficiaries in a group photograph with some staff of the bank
