GCB Bank PLC, the largest bank in Ghana in terms of total operating assets and share of industry deposits, has commiserated with victims of the devastating flooding situation which has displaced many people especially in the Volta Region.
The bank as part of its support system has donated some essential relief items to the victims of the three Tongu districts in the Volta Region at the North Tongu District Assembly Forecourt at Battor.
According to the Executive Head of Retail Banking of the Bank, Mr. John Adamah, who led the donations, it is part of the Bank’s commitment to provide people centered banking that GCB has demonstrated for the past 70 years of providing unrivalled financial solutions towards the socio-economic development of Ghana.
This, he said, will help to alleviate the sufferings of the inhabitants of the affected communities in the Tongu areas by the spillage of the Akosombo and Kpong Dams.
“As a bank we exist because of the people and so if the people are distressed then we cannot sit unconcerned whilst the people suffer. And the importance of this is that we want the communities within in which we operate and which include the Tongu communities to know that, the bank exists because of them. The bank thinks so deeply about them and in their distress, the bank is distressed as well and whatever the bank can do to alleviate their sufferings, the bank will do.”
Mr. John Adamah
Receiving the items on behalf of the three Tongu districts, thus; North, Central and the South Tongu, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for North Tongu Osborne Divine Fenu, applauded the Bank for the support, saying it is the first financial institution to donate.
The Items to Alleviate the Sufferings of the People
Osborne Divine Fenu noted that the items will go a long way in alleviating the sufferings of the people displaced noting that every donation counts for the displaced people as more is needed to resettle them after the water recedes.
The North Tongu District Chief Executive, meanwhile, cautioned people who are in haste to return to their houses which are still somehow in water to avoid the risk.
The items donated included 100 bags of rice, 50 cartons of cooking oil, 50 tin fish-markerel, 1000 bags of sachet water, 100 pieces of mattresses, 100 pieces of blankets, 200 pieces of sponge, 100 pieces’ towels and 24 boxes of washing powder.
The rest are, 25 boxes of carbolic soap, 100 pieces of rubber buckets, 100 cartons of sanitary pads, 25 cartons of Mosquitoes coil, 50 packs of T-roll,100 pieces of washing bowls and 180 pieces of normal bowls.
The Volta Regional Manager of the Bank, Mr. Francis Nyarko, who led the team from the region and the Head Office to the affected communities said the items are worth Ghc200.000
The spillage of the Akosombo and Kpong dams begun on September 15 2023. At least 35,995 people have been displaced according to the latest updates from the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO).
The North Tongu District, the hardest-hit, recorded the highest number of displaced people close to 14,000 which spans across 69 communities with 4, 260 in 15 Safe Havens currently. The spillage has negatively affected about 10 administrative districts in the Volta Region.
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