A group of employees from Access Bank (Ghana) Limited put smiles on the faces of patients at the children’s ward of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on Christmas day, 25th December. The volunteer group contributed over GHS 5,000 to support the project which covered:

• Payment of bills of children detained for non-payment of bills
• Registration of the children and their mothers for NHIS
• Food and drinks
• Interaction session

The highlight of the gesture was the release of some of the children who had been detained at the hospital for non payment of bills. The employees numbering about 30 used the occasion to pledge their support to assist vulnerable groups of children especially orphans and street children. The Project Director, Ernest Ibadin, said his team members, selected from all the 3 Access Bank branches, decided to help the detained because children are the most vulnerable in society. He mentioned that the group also partnered with a Non-profit organisation, One More for Jesus (OMFJ), which supports disadvantaged young people. The Principal Nursing Officer at the Children’s ward of Korle-bu, Madam Joyce Oppong-Ayisi, expressed her gratitude to Access Bank for the kind gesture and reiterated the call for the youth though their various institutions to lend support to the needy in society. In a related development, another group of employees donated 2 desktop computers valued at over GHS 1,500 to the Teshie Orphange in Accra and hosted a party for all the housemates on Boxing Day. The donation was received by Madam Janet Anyeley Parker, the IT Instructor at the home. She said the intervention was timely and will facilitate the teaching and leading of ICT. The two projects under-taken by the employees bring to four the total number of volunteering programmes carried out by staff of the Bank last year. A few weeks ago, two separate employee groups from the Bank donated items to the elderly at Help Age Ghana and renovated 2 classroom blocks at the La Wireless Cluster of Schools.