As families and friends gather for the commencement of the Easter weekend in Ghana, staff and management of Stanbic Bank Ghana limited have come together for an even greater cause, it would appear.
With each contributing what the Manager of the Legal Department at the company, Henry Myles-Mills calls ‘their widows might’; a cheque of GHC 9000 was given to the Citi FM Foundation in aid of the Citi FM Easter Orphan Project.
According to Myles-Mills, “every year we try to help the needy in society and this year we decided to partner Citi FM because of the stories we have heard and the plight of the needy and the fact that an institution like ours can do something to help.”
Receiving the donation, Programmes Manager of Citi FM Jessica Opare-Saforo said, “on behalf of the many orphans whose lives are going to be transformed by this gesture, we say thank you.”
The Citi FM Easter Orphan Project is an annual Corporate Social Responsibility project under the Citi FM Foundation which aims to support some of Ghana’s registered orphanages in their bid to cater for the orphans.
Listeners of the station and corporate organisations always support the station with money, food items and any other gifts to support the orphans.
Over the years, 97.3 Citi FM has supported the Baptist School Complex and Orphanage in Trotor (a hamlet near Suhum), the Jehovah Rapha orphanage in Suhum, Handivangelism at Haatso and Mama Ladi Orphanage in Bolgatanga.
The support has usually been in the form of cash donations, stationery, food items and more.
In 2013, the station and its donors commenced work on a skills and vocational training center at the Suhum Baptist School Complex and orphanage.
The training centre has been completed and currently in use. The centre will train orphans in the fields of carpentry, plumbing, electricals and hairdressing among others.
The 2015 edition of the Easter Orphan Project will see the extension of love and care to the inmates at the Kumasi and Akuse Prisons.
Staff of Citi FM and some volunteers will spend some time with the officers and inmates in the prisons.
Individuals and organizations can support the Easter Orphan Project by donating cash or items such as toiletries, bags of rice, canned food, drinks, biscuits, detergents, stationery and other non-perishables at the front desk of Citi FM, behind the Adabraka Police station.
Cheque donations can be made in the name of the Citi FM Foundation, Universal Merchant Bank; Account number: 0001/01/012295/40.
Donations may also be made through Airtel money by using the Business name: Citi FM.