Ghacem donates 16,000 bags of cement to northern Ghana
About 137 health and educational institutions in deprived communities in northern Ghana have taken delivery of 16,000 bags of cement from the Ghacem Cement Foundation (GCF) to aid their infrastructural development.
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The beneficiary schools and hospitals were drawn from the Upper East, Upper West, Northern, Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions.
The donation is the last of two carried out by the foundation this year.
The Western, Central, Greater Accra, Eastern and Volta regions form the southern sector of the country and they received the first donation of free cement under the Ghacem Cement Foundation as an annual benevolence from GHACEM.
Present at the ceremony were top council members of the Ghacem Cement Foundation (GCF), including the Chairman, Nana Prah Agyensaim VI; Dr George Dawson-Ahmoah, Secretary to the foundation, who is also the Strategy and Corporate Affairs Director of Ghacem, and Professor Audrey Gadzekpo (Member).
Delivering his welcome address, Dr Dawson-Ahmoah commended the beneficiaries for their faith in the company, which made them apply for the free cement, stressing that such commitment had the impetus of bringing development to their area.
The Managing Director of Ghacem, Mr Morten Gade, in a keynote address, said it was the objective of the Ghacem Cement Foundation to support self-help initiatives to speed up the development of the country.
According to him, the board and directors of the company had outlined two areas where its corporate social responsibility programmes were targeted and that the GCF was one of them, aimed at assisting health and educational institutions in deprived areas of the country.
“The second area is developing the community in which we operate and perform our mining activities, and I am happy to announce that the company this year opened a clinic and two educational facilities worth GH¢646,000 in the Lower Manya and the Yilo Krobo districts in the Eastern Region, where the company mines limestone for its cement production,” he said.
Nana Prah Agyensaim said that the GCF had, since its inception 12 years ago, distributed about 400,000 bags of cement, valued at GH¢6.5 million freely to deprived communities.
He said such a gesture was a true demonstration of the company’s commitment to develop Ghana.
