{"id":349043,"date":"2017-08-28T19:10:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T19:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=349043"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:45:13","slug":"stanbic-bank-supports-nneka-youth-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/stanbic-bank-supports-nneka-youth-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanbic Bank supports Nneka Youth Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff of Stanbic Bank have, for the fifth consecutive year, offered support to the Nneka Youth Foundation, a non-profit entity inclined to youth empowerment initiative at Ve-Agbome in the Afadjato South district in the Volta region.<\/p>\n<p>Staff members of the Bank spent the day offering mentorship and career path guidance sessions to help the children make positive life choices. The Bank also donated a cheque for GHS 15,000, 1000 copies of exercise books, pens and bags of clothes to the Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>According to Samuel Teye, the Head of Human Capital of the Bank, Stanbic Bank partnered Nneka Youth Foundation because the objectives of the Foundation are very much aligned to the bank\u2019s CSR strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nneka Foundation aims at giving the youth an opportunity to be what they really aspire to become in life,\u201d he said. \u201cFor the staff members, this is a great opportunity to express a high sense of humanity from which they derive an inner reward. Our Group\u2019s mantra, <em>Africa is our home and we drive her growth,<\/em> demonstrates our outmost commitment to continuously recognise the need to promote and deliberately support the under-privileged through outreach programmes organised by impactful entities like Nneka Youth Foundation,\u201d Mr. Teye stated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170818_143351.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-349052\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170818_143351.jpg\" alt=\"20170818_143351\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since its inception in 2012, the Foundation has trained over 9000 children who have grown to take up profitable vocations and helped support their families. This year\u2019s four-week Summer Camp was attended by 2,242 teenagers from South Dayi, Afadzato South and other neighbouring communities. The beneficiaries of the Foundation receive training from experts and professionals of various disciplines, such as medical doctors, High Court Justices and University Professors. The training comprise the effective use of social media, time management, career path guidance, marketing and entrepreneurship skills, reproductive health effects of drug abuse, teenage pregnancy and \u00a0general life skills.<\/p>\n<p>Cecelia Fiaka, Founder of the Nneka Youth Foundation, and a former Banker who hails from the Ve-Agbome Township, is said to have quit her job to set up the Youth Foundation with the aim of causing change in her community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI questioned myself about the human resource base of my community,\u201d she recounted. \u201cI got challenged to try to see if I can bring these children together and help them believe in themselves in order not to settle for these vices that are derailing them from their roots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stanbic Bank over the years has been committed to creating prosperity by providing critical social support in education, sports development, the agricultural sector, poverty relief, health and environmental protection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Stanbic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff of Stanbic Bank have, for the fifth consecutive year, offered support to the Nneka Youth Foundation, a non-profit entity inclined to youth empowerment initiative at Ve-Agbome in the Afadjato South district in the Volta region. 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