Royal Bank Foundation drills 12 boreholes in Northern region

The Royal Bank (TRB) Foundation is to commission 12 boreholes in six districts in the Northern region on Saturday, November 26, 2016, under its "Water for Life" project.

The project running into several thousands of Ghana Cedis, seeks to provide potable water as part of efforts to improve living conditions for people in deprived areas of the country. The symbolic commissioning would be done at Gbintri in the Mamprusi East district. Dignitaries to grace the occassion include, the chairman of the Royal Bank Foundation, Rev. Faustel Asogba Cofie and Chairman of the Foundation, Dr K.K. Sarpong.

The beneficiary communities are Gyamtutu in the Salaga district, Kukuo in the Nanumba South district, and Makango in the East Gonja district. The rest are, Gambaga, Gbintri and Nalerigu in the East Mamprusi district, Wulugu in the west Mamprusi district. Others are, Katejili, Kitare, Kokonagye, and Mbowura, all in the Kpandai district.

The Foundation is the corporate social responsibility arm of the Bank. At its formation, the late Founder, Dr Adamu Iddrissu, urged the foundation to 'go out there and provide water for our communities, and make sure, that every year, you sink at least sixty boreholes, and when the bank really grows you can do more'.

The Royal Bank Foundation has since its inauguration in August, 2014 constructed close to 100 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.