Standard Chartered (SC) Bank PLC, in partnership with United Way Africa, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) has presented 20 desktop computers to the Osu Presby Girls Basic School in the Korle Klottey Municipality of the Greater Accra Region.
Presenting the computers, Head of Corporate Affairs, Brands and Marketing for SC Bank PLC, Asiedua Addae, said the donation was part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), as the bank believes in education, especially, for the girl child and hope the computers would be of utmost benefit to the school and neighbouring schools without computer laboratories.
“On behalf of SC Bank PLC, we are here to present 20 computers to the Osu Presby Girls Basic School. This is what we do; we have been in Ghana for 125 years we have had a branch in Osu for years. And as a brand, we believe in giving back to the communities in which we operate because you are the ones who come to our bank.
We also believe very much in education. We try to focus on girls because we notice that when the girls stay in school, their families also get better. So, we are glad that at least we have come to the Presby Girls. This programme is not only in Ghana, it’s a programme that we had all over West Africa cluster with our technology team,” she said.
Receiving the computers, Headmistress for Osu Presby Girls, Lydia Offei Kwapong, expressed gratitude for the kind gesture shown them by Stanchart and United Way Africa, and promised to make good use of the computers.
“We were praying to get it and we are so grateful for United Way and SC Bank taking this opportunity to give us these computers to the children. We promise to take good care of it so that by the time you return, you will see the children having more insight in ICT and other pupils from the cluster would also be granted access to the computers,” she noted.
Head of Human Resource and Development for Korle Klottey Municipal Education Directorate, Obiri Mante Seth, thanked SC Bank PLC and United Way Africa and appealed for a repeat of the same gesture to other schools in the Municipality to boost learning of Information Communication and Technology (ICT).
“It is my dream that what we are seeing will not only end here but you also spread your tentacles to other schools within the municipality so that gradually our children will also come up in terms of the use of ICT and education. I want to use this opportunity once again to appeal to if you can also get us internet connectivity to enable the children explore more,” he said.
Impact Lead for United Way Africa, Faustina Abbey, noted that the donation exercise was in response to a need her organisation saw at the school during a reading project held for them last year.
“We are here to respond to a need that we saw last year. We believe that this partnership will go a long way to make a long-term impact,” she emphasised.
