Bank of Baroda donates to SOS Children's Village

By Benjamin Xornam Glover, TEMA Bank of Baroda ( Ghana) Limited has donated assorted items worth GH c 3,000 to the SOS Children's Village in Tema. Items presented are 150 liters of cooking oil, 15 bags each containing 25 kilograms of rice, 140 pieces of toilet rolls, five cartons of fruit juice, 72 pieces of spam and 3 cartons of indomie noddles. Making the donation at a brief ceremony in Tema, the Managing Director of the bank, Mr. Dhirajkumar R. Patel said that the presentations forms part of activities marking six years of its operations in Ghana and also aimed at sharing the bank’s success story in Ghana with the children in the village. He also indicated gesture by the bank was part of its corporate social responsibility. He said the bank emerged most profitable bank in 2013 among 25 banks in Ghana assessed on total income before tax. According to Mr Patel, the bank's profit to date stood at GH c 22.5 million with the Tema branch contributing a chunk of the earnings hence the choice of SOS Children Village as recipient of the items this year. "We want to expressed our appreciation to all our clients for the cordial business relations that has made us who we are in the relative short period of operation in Ghana" he said. He said the bank commenced banking business in Ghana on February 5, 2008 and each year it organizes a corporate social responsibility activity to share its earnings with society. Receiving the assorted items on behalf of the SOS Children's Village, Tema, the Village Director, Mr Isaac Kojo Ackon expressed the Village's appreciation for the donation which he said will go a long way to bring smiles to the faces of the 121 children in the home. -end- Pix: 1:Mr. Dhirajkumar R. Patel, MD of Bank of Baroda presenting the items to Mr Isaac Kojo Ackon, Village Director, SOS Tema while some children in the village look on. QUICK READ 1- Bank of Baroda has presented assorted items worth GH c 3,000.00 to the SOS Children's Village. 2- The gesture forms part of the bank's 6th anniversary in Ghana and its corporate social responsibility