WETA RURAL BANK ASSISTS 16 SCHOOLS (PAGE 20, MARCH 17, 2010)

THE Weto Rural Bank at Kpeve in the South Dayi District has donated assorted books and ceiling fans worth GH¢3,000 to 10 basic and six senior high schools (SHS) in its catchment area.
The schools are Kpeve SHS, Kpedze SHS, Agate SHS, Kpando SHS, Have Technical Institute, Toh Kpalime Vocational Institute, Sokode-Lokoe Junior High School (JHS) and Hlefi Municipal Assembly JHS.
The rest are Toh-Kpalime JHS, Alavanyo Local Authority (LA) JHS, Ando Sadzikope, Tsatee LA JHS, Kpeve-Tornu Salvation Army Primary School, Xorsekope LA Primary School, Goviepe-Todzi Evangelical Presbyterian (EP) Primary, Have EP Primary and New Kayira LA Primary School.
Addressing the recipients, a member of the Board of Directors of the bank, Dr C.D. Anyomi, said the gesture was in line with the desire of the bank to strengthen partnership with the community.
He added that the bank’s social responsibility to the community must begin with the support for schools because their products were the future leaders of the community, as well as future clients of the bank.
Mr Anyomi said the vision of the bank was to ensure that it was the preferred rural bank in facilitating wealth creation in its catchment area.
He stated that the donation would engender a partnership that would draw students, pupils and teachers to support the bank in visible and invisible ways to achieve mutual benefit.
“We only have a successful and thriving bank if the bank works actively within and with the community. An active interaction with the community is what creates business, wealth and satisfaction among staff and working citizens within the community,” Mr Anyomi said.
The South Dayi District Director of Education, Mrs Veronica Adzato-Ntem, commended the bank for identifying education as a target for its interventions.
She said the bank’s ability to withstand the global credit crunch and go further to fulfil its social responsibility to the people was a testimony of the strong inherent corporate values that made it viable at all times.
Mrs Adzato-Ntem appealed to the bank to consider supplying furniture to schools because some of the schools in the district were deprived in that sector.
He added that there was even a “model” school at Kpeve but held classes under cocoa trees, and recommended that school for adoption by the bank.
The Manager of the bank, Mr Theophilus Sebuabe, said the gesture was an appreciation to the community.
He said the bank had offered similar gestures to Farmer Based Organisations (FBOs) in its catchment area.