B. Foster Bakery, bakers of B. Foster bread-based in Koforidua in the Eastern Region, has presented a cheque of Gh¢5,000.00 to the Eastern Regional office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) to enable them to fuel their vehicles to continue with their public education on the coronavirus.

The support was to encourage the institution to sensitize as many citizens as possible about the COVID 19 pandemic and what they have to do to reduce the spread of the disease.

Presenting the cheque at a donation ceremony where other members of the Eastern, Volta and Oti Regional branch of the Association of Ghana Industries(AGI) made presentations to the Eastern Regional Coordinating Council to support the efforts of Eastern Region to control the spread of COVID 19 in the region, Felix Berbiye, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of B. Foster Bakery underscored the importance of the NCCE in the fight against the coronavirus, hence the decision of the company to support the organization.

He said the NCCE has a mandate and with the needed push, he was hopeful that they would embark on a series of awareness creation in the districts across the region.

The CEO indicated that his organization would also support some communities in the New Juaben South and North Municipalities with hand sanitizers, veronica buckets and tissue papers to help in the control of the spread of the coronavirus in the society.

Eric Kwakye-Darfour, Eastern Regional Minister who received the cheque on behalf of NCCE immediately handed over the cheque to the Eastern Regional Director of the NCCE.

He commended B. Foster for the generous support to the NCCE at this crucial time.

The Eastern Regional Director of NCCE, Alex Sackey after receiving the cheque thanked the company for the gesture extended to them as an institution to undertake sensitization and awareness programmes in the region.

He indicated that the support will go a long way to help the work of the NCCE in the region in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus.

Mr Sackey said, since the start of efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus in the country, it is the Church of Pentecost that had offered their evangelism van to the NCCE to embark on sensitization exercise across the region but for some time now, they had been stacked due to fuel constraints.

He said with the support, they will go back to the communities to ensure that they reach out to those communities that were left out in their earlier campaign against the spread of the virus.

Present at the ceremony were officials of the ERCC and the Regional Chairman of the AGI Eastern, Volta, and Oti Regions, Dela Gadzanku.