Royal Bank Foundation Provides 19 Boreholes In Upper East

The Royal Bank Foundation, would on Saturday, May 28, inaugurate 19 boreholes for seventeen communities in the Upper East region. The provision of the boreholes running into several thousands of Ghana Cedis, forms part of the Foundations’ efforts at providing portable drinking water in deprived areas.

Dignitaries to grace the occassion which takes place at Katiuo in the Kasena Nankana West District include, the chairman of the Royal Bank Foundation, Rev. Faustel Asogba Cofie, chairman of the Foundation, Dr KK Sarpong and the founder of the Royal Bank, Dr Adamu Iddrisu.

The Royal Bank Foundation has since its inauguration in August, 2014 constructed close to 70 boreholes in Greater Accra, Eastern, Central, Volta, Western, Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo and Upper East regions. Notable beneficiaries include the Tema General hospital, the Cape Coast School for the Deaf and Blind, and the Offinso Physically Challenged Rehabilitation and Training Centre.

The Foundation has also extended support to other individuals and institutions including sponsoring the end of year party for the children at the Autism Centre in Accra which was organized by the Autism Ambassadors in December 2015, and supporting master Daniel Offei of the Society for the Socially Disadvantaged to undergo limb surgery to correct an injury in the left leg. The foundation has donated six Nebulizers to the Police Hospital and painted four dormitories at the Senior Correction Institute which was formerly the Borstal Institute.

The foundation supported the national sanitation day in Sunyani September 2015. The Royal Bank Foundation is focused on the following areas, health, sanitation and water under which it supports the physically challenged to obtain gainful employment, maternal and child welfare education, maternal health and special needs children, general health awareness creation as well as providing portable water in deprived areas.

Under education, the foundation supports needy but brilliant children in schools, providing teaching and learning aids to deprived schools, supporting educational programmes, renovating school buildings, supporting award schemes for students and staff of chosen institutions, promoting and supporting activities geared at generating a spirit of entrepreneurship among the Ghanaian youth.

The third focus area is culture and sports where the foundation is supporting festivals in communities that the bank operates in, sponsoring community based sports events of interest to the community, and assisting school sports.