[ 2012-07-15 ]

Ecobank donates US$200,000 to Korle-Bu Children's Block
Ecobank Ghana in collaboration with Ecobank
Transitional Incorporated (ETI) as part of its
Corporate Social Responsility (CSR) programme has
donated 200,000 United States dollars to the
Children's Block of the Korle-Bu Teaching
Hospital.

The donation was made as part activities marking
the official commissioning ceremony of the merger
between Ecobank Ghana and The Trust Bank in
Accra.

Mr Arnold Ekpe, Chief Executive Officer of Ecobank
Group, who made the donation, said the amount was
earmaked for the provision of special machines and
equipment that are needed by the Hospital and to
“give a facelift to parts of the children's block
that has not seen renovations for decades.”

He said Ecobank's CSR policy was focuses on mainly
on Health, Education, the underprivileged,
employment generation and environment adding that
the donation was part of the bank's larger vision
of “building a World class Pan African Bank and
contributing to the economic and financial
development of Africa.”

Mr Ekpe said Ecobank has recently donated to
various institutions including SIFE Ghana, Ghana
National Trust Fund, Ghana Business Coalition
against HIV/AIDS, Ghana Health Service, Ghana
Blind Union and Ghana Heart Foundation as a way of
giving back to society and the general communities
within its catchment areas.

“It will be recalled that Ecobank Ghana on June 5
presented 1,270 varieties of seedlings and various
kinds of implements worth GHc10,000 to the
Prampram Senior High School and joined the
students and staff of the school to plant the
seedlings during Word Environment Day,” he said.

Professor Bamenla Goka, Head of Department of
Child Health of the Korle-Bu Hospital who recieved
the cheque on behalf of the hospital said “this is
the biggest donation to the children block of the
hospital.”

She said the money would be used for its intended
purpose saying “I hope Ecobank would remember of
the hospital again sometime next year as they
planned for the CSR budget.”

Prof Goka thanked Ecobank for the gesture and
called on other banks and institutions to emulate
the love and passion Ecobank has shown towards the
development of child health in the Ghana.

Ecobank Ghana was incorporated on January 9, 1989
as a private limited liability company to engage
business on banking and was initially licensed to
operate as a merchant bank by the Bank of Ghana on
November same year.

It however commenced business in Febuary 1990 and
following the introduction of Universal Banking by
the Bank of Ghana, the bank became the first bank
to be granted the universal banking license from
the Bank of Ghana.

Source - GNA

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