{"id":996134,"date":"2022-02-18T15:47:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/18\/vivo-energy-ghana-celebrates-valentines-day-with-akropong-school-for-the-blind\/"},"modified":"2022-02-18T15:47:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:47:27","slug":"vivo-energy-ghana-celebrates-valentines-day-with-akropong-school-for-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/18\/vivo-energy-ghana-celebrates-valentines-day-with-akropong-school-for-the-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivo Energy Ghana celebrates Valentine\u2019s day with Akropong School for the Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Accra, Feb 17, GNA – Vivo Energy Ghana, the exclusive marketer, and distributor of Shell-branded fuels and lubricants has donated a multi-functional printer, bags of rice and chocolates to the Akropong School for the Blind in the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n
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The donation was to commemorate this year\u2019s Valentine\u2019s day: – a special day during which people express their love and admiration for one another.<\/div>\n
Over the years, Vivo Energy Ghana\u202fmarked this day internally with its employees and to reaffirm its commitment of impacting the communities in which it operated, the company in partnership with its employees marked this year\u2019s celebration with the launch of the maiden edition of the \u2018Energising Hope\u2019 to extend love and care to Akropong School for the Blind.\u202f<\/div>\n
A statement copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Thursday said the Corporate Communications Manager of Vivo Energy Ghana, Mrs. Shirley Tony Kum who led a team of employees to make the donation said, \u201cAs a company, we are dedicated to touching and impacting lives through our main focus areas of Education, Environment, and Road Safety, as well as committed to creating a lasting impact in our communities.\u202f<\/div>\n
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“We believe this gesture will go a long way towards ensuring the efficient use of the school’s resources and help channel funds that the school would have used in purchasing these items into other pressing needs of the students.\u201d\u202f<\/div>\n
It said Mrs Kum lauded the teachers and management of the school for their commitment to ensuring that the students get the best education.\u202f<\/div>\n
She according to the statement also extended her gratitude to Vivo Energy’s management and employees, as well as MFI Ghana Limited, for their contributions in making the donation possible and called on other corporate bodies to empathise with the students and help provide the needed support and opportunities to enable them to overcome their disabilities and contribute to society.<\/div>\n
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Receiving the items on behalf of the school, Mr. Gideon Doyi a teacher, expressed his appreciation to Vivo Energy Ghana for supporting them and recounted how the lack of a multi-functional printer hampered their administrative work and assured Vivo Energy Ghana of conducting routine maintenance to ensure the maximum efficiency of the printer in supporting the school\u2019s day-to-day operations.<\/div>\n
Vivo Energy Ghana employs 150 people. The company is recognised as a leader in the oil industry, championing and setting standards for safety.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accra, Feb 17, GNA – Vivo Energy Ghana, the exclusive marketer, and distributor of Shell-branded fuels and lubricants has donated a multi-functional printer, bags of rice and chocolates to the Akropong School for the Blind in the Eastern Region. The donation was to commemorate this year\u2019s Valentine\u2019s day: – a special day during which people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":996135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[5229,5230,2018,473,2635,85,753,3334,4753],"class_list":["post-996134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-akropong","tag-blind","tag-celebrates","tag-day","tag-energy","tag-ghana","tag-school","tag-valentines","tag-vivo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}