MTN marks end of staff-driven CSR
Ghana’s only telecommunications 4G service provider, MTN, has climaxed activities by staff members to give back their uttermost to society.
This year’s edition was held on the theme; “Investing in Education for All.”
The staff-driven Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme christened; “21 Days of Y’ello Care” is annual activity embarked on by the company through staff members who volunteer as a way of impacting positively on communities every 21 days in June.
At a closing ceremony held at the MTN House in Accra recently to climax the event(s), Corporate Services Executive (CSE,) Mrs. Cynthia Lumor, told the teeming staff members, partners and the media that MTN was glad that for 20 years, its employees have volunteered to transform communities across the country.
She announced that staff members were able to impact the lives of some 7,000 students in 14 schools across the country.
Mrs. Lumor explained that the staff volunteers refurbished an existing classroom block at the Mampong School for the Deaf.
They also converted two classrooms into an expandable Resource Centre equipped with desktop computers with 4G modem, headset and microphone, an overhead projector with a screen and inbuilt voice-to-text software and furniture.
The MTN CSE further disclosed that in partnership with the Ghana Education Service (GES) and Multi Choice Ghana, six Senior High Schools were equipped with satellite TV systems with access to DSTV’s educational bouquet.
Six other institutions – Keta SHS, Nana Kobina Nketsiah School, Dachio JHS, Edwenase Rehabilitation Centre, St. Augustine RC Basic School and the Nsawam Prisons received 35 computers.
She further elaborated that staff members donated books and built libraries at Tuobodom and Dachio JHS respectively.
“Our staff took pupils through how to create teaching and learning materials using discarded materials such as plastic bottles, shells collected from the sea shore and simple paper cut-outs,” she said.
Mrs. Lumor added that a teacher’s portal was developed for GES to contain soft copies of teachers’ manuals, textbooks, educational curriculum under a project called the “CEO’s Prison Project.”
She disclosed that she led some senior management members to donate computers to the Nsawam Prisons and fumigated their cells.
She thanked MTN’s partners, the media and community folks and urged them (the beneficiary communities) to ensure that the interventions last.
Staff members were appreciated for their efforts and commitment while partner companies were given certificates for their support.
A student of the Mampong School for Deaf, Master Semenhyia Stanley, expressed his colleagues’ appreciation to MTN in a brief remark, indicating that MTN’s intervention has made learning easier as they can now connect to the internet.
