Rev. Dr Mrs. Comfort Asare, Director for Department of Social Welfare

Head Mistress, Mrs Gifty Tepkor, Staff and Students of SLATECH

Fellow Ecobankers

Our friends from the media

Good morning to you all.

Let me start by thanking you all for making time to celebrate Ecobank Day 2023 with us.

Adding to what Tomisin has already said, at Ecobank, we take the issue of corporate social responsibility very seriously, in every individual affiliate country and also at the group level. 

Each country is therefore able to discharge this social obligation on a standalone basis along our four main pillars of Education, Health, Financial Inclusion, and Environmental Sustainability all year round. We then come together, as a group, to observe and celebrate this special day, Ecobank Day, which occurs once in a year, precisely in the last quarter. We usually work together to agree on a common theme and common projects for each year, which we execute in each of our 33 African countries on the same day.

Considering our new campaign, aimed at ‘Transforming Africa Through Education’, and the specific theme for 2023, ‘Excel with Digital Skills’, as already mentioned, we are here today to make a donation to two schools along these lines.

1. We are equipping an ICT Lab with 21 computers, Tables and chairs, a Projector, and a UPS at the Potters Village Orphanage, at Dodowa.

1. Here at SLATECH, we have brought contractors to site to work at rehabilitating an ICT Lab, which will also be equipped with 21 computers, Tables and chairs, a Projector, and a UPS. Three of your classrooms will also be furnished with Students’ Dual desks, and chairs provided to match the long tables at the Dressmaking department, as some students usually stand on their feet for lessons.

It is our expectation that these donations will help the students in these two schools improve their academic and practical performances, particularly digital skills, which is our main focus.

We want students of SLATECH to learn in a very conducive environment, just like students of better endowed schools, hence the provision of the desks and additional chairs. It is our hope that both students and teachers would protect these items, so they would last longer to serve the needs of many more students in the years ahead.

We expect that the rehabilitation and installation of the labs will take about four weeks to complete, by which time the desks and chairs would have also been delivered. We therefore hope to revisit these two schools by the end of November to commission the computer labs.

As part of this donation, Ecobank will also organise training in ICT for students of the two schools, after the commissioning of the labs. I will encourage you, the students, to take those training sessions seriously to enable you grasp the needed digital skills that will make you competitive on the global stage.

At the appropriate time, we shall all visit the proposed lab and the classrooms to see their present situation before we hand the site over to the contractors.

I appreciate all of you for helping to make the 10^th anniversary of Ecobank Day such a special and memorable occasion.

Thank you.