The tenth anniversary celebration of MTN Ghana Foundation was yesterday launched in Accra with the assurance by the Foundation to promote health, education and economic empowerment Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) management initiative in the country.
The celebration of the Foundation was on the theme: “Celebrating Ten Years of Brightening Lives, Inspiring A Brighter Future.”
The MTN Foundation is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) management structure for the MTN Group’s related initiatives across its 22 operations.
The MTN Ghana Foundation was established in 2007 as a single purpose vehicle to drive all MTN’s CSR initiatives in the country.
The Foundation currently has three focus areas – health, education and economic empowerment.
The Foundation is set up as a separate legal entity with its own independent board of directors and patrons who oversee the operations of the Foundation.
Its commitment is centred on the socio-economic development of the country through the rolling out of appropriate and sustainable social interventions in communities all over the country.
The main aim of the Foundation is to have a broad community impacting and supporting national and international development priorities.
It facilitates partnership and sharing of resources to achieve mutual objectives.
At a media launch in Accra yesterday, Board Chairman of MTN Ghana Foundation, Prof. Franklin Manu, said: “Today, we celebrate 10 good years of remarkable Corporate Social Responsibility investment. Indeed it has been a decade of great transformation and improved wellbeing for the communities we have touched spanning the North, South, East and West of Ghana.”
Through the intervention of the Foundation, according to him, more people in rural and urban communities now have access to improved healthcare.
In the same vein, Prof Manu disclosed that thousands of expectant mothers now delivered in comfortable hospitals that we “have refurbished or constructed.”
He cited an example of the construction of Tema General Hospital as one health improved project of the Foundation through its support healthcare initiative in Ghana.
He pointed out that “the Foundation was proud of the thousands of people who have benefited from our scholarship scheme, and pledged its readiness to award scholarship to 200 students across its 22 operations.
Story: Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu
