Graphic to partner MoneyGram to improve education standards
The Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) and MoneyGram money transfer have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve on educational standards, especially from the primary level.
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Under the MoU, the two organisations are to collaborate to organise essay competitions through MoneyGram’s Back to School Promotion for primary and junior high school (JHS) students.
This year’s essay competition is on the topic: “Why is it important to buy made-in-Ghana goods?” and it is open to children from classes four to JHS Three.
The promotion runs from August 13 to September 30, 2014.
Other aspects of the MoU
The MoU obligates MoneyGram to purchase and distribute 20,000 copies of the Junior Graphic to deprived public primary schools in the Eastern, Greater Accra and the Central regions during the period of promotion.
In view of this, the GCGL would offer 25 per cent discount to MoneyGram.
GCGL’s mandate
Addressing the meeting before the signing of the MoU in Accra, the Managing Director of the GCGL, Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, said the partnership between the two companies was in line with the GCGL’s mandate to improve and promote reading among Ghanaian children.
He said the future of every nation was dependent on its children, adding that education was key to the total upbringing of such children.
Mr Ashigbey expressed worry over the challenging situations some children in deprived areas in the country had to overcome before accessing quality education.
He, therefore, called on MoneyGram to partner with the GCGL to distribute computers to the deprived public primary schools across the country.
Corporate social responsibility
The West African Regional Manager of MoneyGram, Ms Kemi Okusanya, said MoneyGram was poised to give back to society, adding that “we see this as a corporate social responsibility.”
As a company, she stated that it invested about 50 per cent of its revenue in education, and added that it showed MoneyGram’s total commitment to the progress of education in the country.
For his part, the Anglophone West African Senior Marketing Executive, Mr Kofi Akyea, assured the GCGL that it would do its best to partner the company to distribute computers to deprived primary schools in the country as requested in the not-too-distant future.