uniBank’s debut as one of the foremost practitioners of CSR in Ghana was affirmed when it received the CSR Bank of the Year and CSR Initiative / Campaign of the Year accolade at the 7thGhana CSR Excellence Awards held at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel on Friday, October 27, 2017 under the auspices of the Centre For CSR West Africa.
The CSR Excellence Awards is a nifty platformmodelled on the European CSR Awards with multistakeholder- participation which measures companies’compliance to best practices in CSR and sustainability, especially their impact-driven interventions and projects across Ghana.
uniBank (Ghana) Limited beat off strong competition from over 30 banks with its flagship program on health, the Operation Smile Project. Through this benevolent act, uniBank, partnered with Operation Smile Ghana, an International Medical Charity Organisation to perform free surgical operations on 150 patients born with cleft lips and cleft palate; the 3rd commonest birth defect in the world.
This birth defect, which is increasingly spreading within some rural and urban areas in the country, causes speech abnormalities and breathing problems sometimes resulting in death.
The Bank also through its vivacious One Ghana Project, an inspiring commitment by staff of uniBank to ensure crafted meaningful change in our communities through monthly donations was acknowledged.
Mr. Kojo Williams, the LeadProject Manager and co-founder of the Centre indicated that the GHACEA awards is one of the most important awards that all organisations with the impetus to help in the development of Ghanashould aspire to win,and thus, congratulated uniBank for the delightful societal interventions.
He posited that it is no longer acceptable for businesses to concentrate only on profit making but also give accounts of their commitment to the Ghanaian populace, the environment and society by implementing sustainable projects that inure to the benefit of society.
Acknowledging the certificate of honour,Clifford Duke Mettle, Executive Director, indicated that uniBank is ardent in providing support to entities whose mission anchors on education, youth development and healthcare for the underprivileged, stating that, “undertaking CRS initiatives are fundamental to us, as it delights us to see lives affected positively”, he added.