RURAL BANKS ASSIST AMENFIMAN SHS (PAGE 20)

THE Amenfiman Rural Bank has equipped the home economics department of the Amenfiman Senior High School (SHS) at Wassa Akropong in the Amenfi East District in the Western Region.
The equipment, including gas stoves, three gas cylinders and their accessories, a measuring scale and different sets of cooking utensils worth thousands of Ghana cedis, was aimed at enhancing teaching and learning at the department.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the bank, Mr Steven Ampong, who made the presentation, said the donation formed part of the bank’s social responsibility to support education and provide other development projects in its catchment area.
He said gone are the days when businesses focused on profit at the expense of their corporate social responsibilities.
Mr Ampong said the department was different from the other departments, and it was important that tools needed for enhancement of academic work was provided.
“We, therefore, identified that if we want to help provide the needed skilled manpower for the development of the country, we are left with no option than to support the development of education in the region, especially technical and vocational skills,” he said.
Mr Ampong said more assistance had been extended to other educational institutions in the community, including a six-bedroom accommodation facilities for primary schools and the renovation of the police station in the area. 
He said the company’s support for the police was to improve the security situation in the area in view of the upsurge of crime in that part of the region. 
He urged members of the community to patronise the services of the bank, and to ensure that the loans they had contracted from it were paid back in time.
The Headmistress of the school, Miss Faustina Adarkwa, who received the gift, was grateful to the bank for assisting the school at a time that it needed the facilities most.
She said the items would enhance teaching and learning. Madam Adarkwa used the opportunity to appeal for more assistance from other organisations.