Voltic donates 2,200 Tutu desks

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Phil Redman presenting the cheque to Mr. Hubert Charles

Voltic (GH) Limited, producers of Voltic Natural Mineral Water today handed over 2,200 tutu desks valued at GHC 127,130.000 to World Vision Ghana for distribution to school children in deprived communities in Ghana.

The annual project which was started in 2012 has over the years benefited over 4,000 school children in more than forty primary schools; who otherwise had no writing surfaces.

Presenting the Tutu desk to World Vision at a colourful ceremony in Accra, Mr. Philip Redman, General Manager of Voltic (GH) Limited stated that “we endeavour to create shared opportunities by reinvesting beyond our value chain. By ensuring the availability of some basic amenities, like teaching and learning materials, Voltic is supporting the government’s efforts in providing accessible education for future generations.”

Receiving the items on behalf of World Vision Ghana, National Director, Mr. Hubert Charles commended Voltic and stressed that “Education is the keyhole through which we all must pass to have a chance at a good life. World Vision will not relent to provide children especially the most vulnerable, opportunity to have the best of education in Ghana”.

Tutu desks are portable school desks (flat surface writing boards) a project initiated by the Tutu desk Campaign, whose Patron is South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu. It is aimed at providing writing surfaces for children in Sub Saharan Africa who do not have the benefit of a classroom desk. The absence of a writing surface has been found to affect the handwriting, concentration and overall academic performance of these children.

Voltic (GH) Limited’s partnership with World Vision Ghana to bring Tutu desk to children in deprived communities in Ghana is in line with Voltic’s corporate objective to support initiatives that seek to improve access to primary education and improvement in educational infrastructure

Recognising the benefits of these desks, Augustine Wadzro, a 17 year old beneficiary and Junior High student of Dedesu DA Junior High School in the Afram Plains stated “Since I joined this school I have been sharing desk and sometimes sit and write on the floor but today, I have something to write on. I want to learn so hard that I can write letters for the elders in my community and also teach the young ones.”

Voltic (Gh) Limited through the acquisition and distribution of Tutu desk demonstrates a sustainable approach in building a thriving world, one of the company’s sustainable development goals 4.

Voltic (GH) Limited presents Ghc20,000 to support GEP

By Frank Owusu-Ofori

Corporate and Legal Affairs Director of Voltic (GH), Adjoba Kyiamah presenting the cheque to Gill Norris of GEP. Assisting them is the Corporate Affairs Manager of Voltic, Cyrus deGraft-Johnson

Voltic (GH) Limited has presented a cheque of GhC20, 000 to the Ghana Education Project (GEP). The donation, which is a Corporate Social investment by Ghana’s leading mineral water producer, will finance a number of activities aimed at providing human resource training as well as teaching and learning materials.

Corporate and Legal Affairs Director of Voltic (GH) Limited, Adjoba Kyiamah in presenting the cheque to the NGO, noted that the focus of Voltic’s sustainable corporate social investment initiatives is on the positive transformation and uplifting of communities by supporting primary education, health and social development.

“Voltic (GH) Limited strives to ensure that its work benefits as many people as possible whilst providing stability and security for future generations. To us, social investment is not an add-on to business activities, but at the heart of how we engage with the communities where our customers, employees, investors and suppliers live”

She noted that this was the third year since Voltic partnered with GEP’s and “we are proud of the amount of improvement this NGO has made so far.

“Today, we have decided to support it with a further GhC20,000. This is in line with our corporate objective to support initiatives that seek to improve access to primary education and improvement in educational infrastructure.”

GEP has over a decade been supporting the development of education and associated infrastructure in Nkwanta, a deprived area in the northern part of the Volta Region. GEP has completed several projects such as the Conservation Education Centre, a library, Records and Reception office for the St Joseph’s Hospital, a Teachers Resource Centre and the Kyabobo Community Centre. It is currently undertaking an exercise to develop a special curricular on reading and writing skills

Receiving the cheque, the founder of the NGO, Gillian Norris, expressed her gratitude to Voltic (Gh).

“GEP is most grateful to Voltic for this benevolent gesture. We would be glad if other companies come to assist us complete the numerous projects we have set our eyes on in the Nkwanta district.”

She gave further explanations on GEP’s project.

“GEP runs several programmes that support the provision of quality education too. We have set up the Nkwanta Awards for Junior High Schools, which received financial and material support from Voltic (GH) Limited last year. This further donation from Voltic will enable us facilitate the training programmes for teachers and produce lesson plans for every Science and English lesson in JHS,” she noted.

Ms. Norris urged other corporate organizations to contribute their quota to the project.

It is our hope that other companies will join us and motivate us through cash and kind to provide valuable help to these deprived areas here in Northern Volta.”

Voltic has extended financial support to a number of NGOs in the education sector such as Connecting Kids, Future for Kids, World Vision Ghana. It also recently organised a free health screening for pupils in the Nyameani community in the Bosomtwi District of the Ashanti Region whilst at the same time renovating and equipping the Nyameani Methodist Clinic.

 

 

Voltic to the aid of Nyameani Methodist Clinic

By Frank Owusu-Ofori

Ms. Adjoba Kyiamah (2nd right) commissioning the Clinic. With her are Nana Owusu Agyeman, (middle) Mad. Veronica Antwi Adjei (left)

Voltic (GH) Limited, the recently awarded “Greatest Brand” has handed over a newly renovated and fully equipped Clinic to the Nyameani community in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region.

The project which was undertaken in 2013 and valued then at GHS 80,000.00, forms part of Voltic’s ambition of accelerating growth and social development through its value chain.

It also forms part of the company’s commitment to deploy sustainable development initiatives within the Nyameani community where it has been operating for the past five years.

The donation is coming on the heels of a successful health screening exercise organized by Voltic for pupils of the Nyameani Methodist Primary and Junior High School in the last quarter of 2013.

Presenting the equipment to the Clinic’s administration, Ms. Adjoba Kyiamah, Legal and Corporate Affairs Director of Voltic (GH) Limited, said Voltic, as a subsidiary of SABMiller understands the interconnection between society and business.

“We aim to be a force for good in every community that we operate in and this is clearly outlined in the recently launched Five Shared Imperatives of SABMiller, our parent company.

The medical equipment donated include wheel chairs, oxygen cylinders, stretchers, vaccine fridge, delivery sets and beds, instrument trolleys, infant resuscitation bags, stethoscopes, clinical thermometers, bed linens, sterilisers, clinical scissors and weighing scales for both infants and adults amongst others.

The District Chief Executive of Bosomtwe District, Madam Veronica Antwi Adjei commended Voltic (GH) for their support to the district and for complementing Government’s efforts at improving healthcare delivery in the country.

She added that such efforts were welcomed by the government as it hastened Ghana’s health sector processes to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 by 2015.

Nana Owusu Agyeman, the Kontihene of Nyameani, who chaired the commissioning and handing over ceremony commended Voltic for bringing employment to the doorstep of the Nyameani community.

The Nyameani Methodist Clinic, which was established some 20 years ago jointly by the community and the local Methodist Church, serves as the only health post in the community. Over the years, the clinic has not received any facelift and also lacked some important medical equipment needed for effective healthcare delivery.

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