The Royal Bank Foundation, would on Saturday, May 28, inaugurate 19
boreholes for seventeen communities in the Upper East region.
The provision of the boreholes running into several thousands of Ghana
Cedis, forms part of the Foundations’ efforts at providing portable
drinking water in deprived areas.
Dignitaries to grace the occassion which takes place at Katiuo in the
Kasena Nankana West District include, the chairman of the Royal Bank
Foundation, Rev. Faustel Asogba Cofie, chairman of the Foundation, Dr
KK Sarpong and the founder of the Royal Bank, Dr Adamu Iddrisu.
The Royal Bank Foundation has since its inauguration in August, 2014
constructed close to 70 boreholes in Greater Accra, Eastern, Central,
Volta, Western, Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo and Upper East regions.
Notable beneficiaries include the Tema General hospital, the Cape
Coast School for the Deaf and Blind, and the Offinso Physically
Challenged Rehabilitation and Training Centre.
The Foundation has also extended support to other individuals and
institutions including sponsoring the end of year party for the
children at the Autism Centre in Accra which was organized by the
Autism Ambassadors in December 2015, and supporting master Daniel
Offei of the Society for the Socially Disadvantaged to undergo limb
surgery to correct an injury in the left leg.
The foundation has donated six Nebulizers to the Police Hospital and
painted four dormitories at the Senior Correction Institute which was
formerly the Borstal Institute.
The foundation supported the national sanitation day in Sunyani September 2015.
The Royal Bank Foundation is focused on the following areas, health,
sanitation and water under which it supports the physically challenged
to obtain gainful employment, maternal and child welfare education,
maternal health and special needs children, general health awareness
creation as well as providing portable water in deprived areas.
Under education, the foundation supports needy but brilliant children
in schools, providing teaching and learning aids to deprived schools,
supporting educational programmes, renovating school buildings,
supporting award schemes for students and staff of chosen
institutions, promoting and supporting activities geared at generating
a spirit of entrepreneurship among the Ghanaian youth.
The third focus area is culture and sports where the foundation is
supporting festivals in communities that the bank operates in,
sponsoring community based sports events of interest to the community,
and assisting school sports.
Source: Francis Owusu-Ansah, Might FM
