The borehole, estimated at a cost of GHS19,000, was completed within two months to serve students and staff of the school.

The inauguration of the borehole project was witnessed by students and teachers of Manchie M/A Basic School, staff of HFC Investments, representatives from the Municipal Education Directorate, and the Chiefs and people of Manchie.

This is the second time HFC Investments is inaugurating a project in the small farming community. It is a follow up to the earlier project inaugurated for the school in 2016, which is a 3-unit classroom block.

The mechanized borehole, located on the school’s premises, means that pupils who hitherto walked several kilometers in search of water or joined long winding queues to fetch water at the limited boreholes (non-mechanized), will no longer go through this.

One of the pupils said, “We can now heave a sigh of relief. No more walking long distances, carrying buckets on our heads to fetch water. Now we can study better because we don’t have to use school hours to go in search of water”.

Speaking at the inauguration, the General Manager of HFC Investments, Peter Larbi-Yeboa, was confident that the mechanized borehole would go a long way to alleviate the plight of the pupils.

He added that the initiative was a staff volunteering project.

“This beautiful project you see here was financed through staff donations including other innovative initiatives undertaken by them to raise funds, and this kindness is highly commendable. But this gesture will not be a nine-day wonder. We will continue to positively influence lives in this community, no matter how small, Mr. Larbi noted”.

The Assembly member for the area, Benjamin Richard Akoto, the representative for the Chief of Manchie, Samuel Nii Omarboe , the Deputy Director of Finance and Administration at the Municipal Directorate, Miss Beverly Dansoah Bartels and the Headmaster of the school, Kingsley Adobah, lauded the initiative by the bank, and charged the students and pupils to ensure the  proper maintenance of the borehole.

HFC Investments donates incubator to Keta Municipal Hospital

HFC Investments earlier donated an incubator and accessories worth over GHS30,000 to the Keta Municipal Hospital, in the Volta Region.

The 110-bed capacity hospital, is the second oldest in the region, and serves residents in Keta and its environs.

HFC Investments made this donation, after the only incubator in the neo-natal care unit broke down beyond repairs.

The short handing over event had in attendance, the Queen mother of Keta, Mama Tokornii, the Presiding member for the Keta Municipal Assembly, Richard Kwame Sefe, staff of the hospital including the facility’s medical Superintendent, Dr. Kwasi Asare Bediako among others.

Dr. Bediako thanked the bank for the act of kindness, and noted that the incubator could not have come at a better time.

“We are so grateful for this. We never saw this day coming, after the only one we had just broken down. Unarguably, this will reduce the deaths of premature babies at this facility.  Parents (especially the poor ones, don’t have to travel to the other cities again. This is simply a blessing’’.

On his part, Peter Larbi-Yeboa, said this initiative was also staff driven, adding that the whole idea of giving back to society formed an integral part of the bank’s corporate culture and strategy.

‘’What is striking and worth noting about why we are here today is the degree of staff involvement in this instance. This initiative is an entirely staff led process from conception to delivery. And so it is not about wanting something back or showing to the world that we are good citizens – it is only because it is the right thing to do’’.

An elated Mr. Larbi-Yeboa said the entire staff of HFC Investments were pleased that their efforts had come to fruition.

‘’We are here today to share in the joy of the hospital and community. We only pray and hope that the incubator will go a long way to assist preterm or premature babies born at this hospital to grow up strong, and come back to contribute to Keta and Ghana”, he stated.

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By: Pearl Akanya Ofori/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Korleman is one of the two farming communities that benefited from the station’s annual Help a Christmas Child initiative in 2016.

The borehole was constructed after it emerged that residents rely on a single borehole for water.

At the end of the memorable event, the Chief of Korleman, Nii Korle the 7th, said the borehole has brought a lot of relief to his people.

The Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Citi FM, and HR Manager, Jennifer Anane Nsiah, said the station has plans of doing similar projects in other deprived communities.

According to her, “Citi FM decided to construct a borehole for the over one thousand residents to provide them with easy access to water after it emerged they rely on just one borehole.”

The request for the borehole to be built was made by the Chiefs and people of the area when the station threw a party for them in 2016, as part of its annual Help a Christmas Child Project.

The construction of the borehole is expected to alleviate the plight of the residents especially school children, who often walk long distances to fetch from just one borehole that serves the community.

Watch the video beneath to catch up with what transpired

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Residents of Awutu Dodukwa in the Awutu Senya West District of the Central Region, could not hide their joy on Easter Monday after the first bore hole project was commissioned for them.

The residents, numbering about 300, have not seen potable water in the farming community since independence.

The Member of Parliament for the Awutu Senya West Constituency, George Andah, in collaboration with Milani Pineapple Company Limited, constructed a mechanized borehole For the residents of Awutu Dodukwa.

Commissioning the GHc15, 000 water project at Awutu Dodukwa on Monday, the MP for the area, George Andah, said the project would improve his relationship with the farming community.

This he said would open the way for the community to see many infrastructural developments in the coming months.

The MP, who’s also the Deputy Minister for Communication, urged the chiefs and opinion leaders of Awutu Dodukwa to ensure periodic maintenance of the project in order to sustain it for the next generation.

For his part, the Managing Director of Milani Pineapple Company Limited, Bijean Milani, said the water project was done as part of the company’s cooperate social responsibility, which is aimed at providing portable water to all the deprived communities in the company’s catchment area.

According to him, providing water for them would also encourage the over 200 workers of the company who leave in such underdeveloped communities.

Nenyi Kweku Adawu I, the Chief of Awutu Dodukwa on behalf of the residents, expressed his profound gratitude to the MP and the Milani Pineapple Company for the kind gesture.

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By: Akwesi Koranteng/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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The bank commissioned the boreholes in the T. I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School at Adansi Fomena, Bonwire Senior High School in Bonwire and one at Kaase.

This gesture is part of the Royal Bank’s Corporate Social Responsibility of providing 60 boreholes nationwide each year.

Mr. Faustel Asogba Coffie, Board Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Royal Bank Foundation was hopeful that “this will make a great impact and this is our dream and that of the founder, because his upbeat is to make sure that you do not wait for people to fall sick before you get them healed.”

He encouraged those to whom the boreholes were handed over, to “take good care of the borehole, I wish you could set up a committee or a group of persons who will take care of it and see to its maintenance, keep the surroundings clean, and remember water is life.”

The Kaase community, a slum in the capital, had been without potable water for decades and residents relied mainly on sachet water for all activities including bathing.

The residents in the area expressed gratitude to the bank for the gesture, with the elders pledging to take proper care of the borehole.

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By: Lauretta Timah/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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