The Amantin and Kasei Community Bank Limited, headquartered at Amantin in the Bono East Region, has supported the national fight against spread of coronavirus in the country by donating assorted items to deprived health facilities in its catchment area. The items donated by the bank are ten Veronica buckets, ten...
The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has supported the fight against COVID-19 with a presentation of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other essential items to two health institutions in the Tamale Metropolis. The beneficiary institutions, which were the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) and Tolon Health Facility, received Veronica buckets, FFP2 nose masks,...
This collaboration will help children study online and stay on top of their education Ecobank Group ,the pan-African Bank, is leveraging its distribution and partner networks to raise awareness of literacy apps in the Google Play Store to support the education of children who are at home due to the...
In the fight against novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has initiated a process to raise about GH¢60million to purchase personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline agriculture workers. The rationale is to support frontline agriculture workers, encompassing smallholder farmers, agriculture extension...
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has donated COVID-19 educational and sensitisation materials in Braille to the Ghana Blind Union (GBU), for use by persons with blindness. The items donated are worth over GH¢24,000 and included sensitisation braille materials to be distributed to all regions, Veronica buckets, nose-masks and...
The upcoming farming season will go ahead uninterrupted despite disruptions to the farm input supply chain, RMG Ghana Limited - a leading input provider - has assured. This follows launch of the firm’s GH¢100,000 COVID-19 Farmers' Support Programme and the acquisition of all needed inputs for the upcoming crop season...
iPay, a technology company, has urged Ghanaian businesses to practice the cashlite-cashless system as part of measures to reduce the spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country. in a statement, Commercial Manager for iPay, Mr. Kwadwo Lartey, said iPay recognises the fact that in the fight to stop...
More than 200,000 businesses are expected to soon access the GHc600 million stimulus package called COVID-19 Alleviation Programme (CAP), the Executive Director of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), Kosi Yankey-Ayeh, has announced. The businesses, mostly Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises, which have been worst affected by the...
The University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and PharmAccess Foundation, has introduced a new care coordination service app, to efficiently provide healthcare services for people with Covid-19. The app, CovidConnect, will offer individuals a range of services including care management and monitoring,...
International businesses are the hardest hit by the on-going COVID-19 pandemic and the cashew sector is no different. China, USA and European countries, which are the major cashew kernel markets, have closed their borders to travels to control the spread of the deadly virus, slowing down trade. Cashew processing giants...