NGO to collaborate with Barclays Bank

Tuesday, December 4, 2007-page 29
Story: Musah Yahaya Jafaru
THE Eanfoworld for Sustainable Development, an NGO, will collaborate with Barclays Bank to undertake clean-up exercises and offer free medical check up for the residents of Nima and Maamobi.
The Executive Chairman of Eanfoworld, Alhaji Alhasan Abdulai, said the free medical check up would particularly target the aged and orphans in the two communities.
He was addressing residents of Maamobi, a suburb of Accra, at the forecourt of the Barclays’ new branch in the area.
The meeting jointly organised by Eanfoworld and Barclays Bank and attended by chiefs, Imams, traders,women and youth organisations, was to inform the people on the operations of the bank.
Alhaji Abdulai said his outfit would seek the assistance of assemblymembers, chiefs, women and youth organisations in the organisation of the programmes.
"We shall also engage in counselling on business and health issues. This is because we believe that good health is tied to productivity", he said.
He said Eanfoworld had planned a customer's forum on regional basis to be addressed by the managing director of Barclays Bank and her assistants, as a way of making the people "healthier and happier, and drawing closer to Barclays Bank".
Alhaji Abdulai urged Muslims to cultivate the habit of saving since that was crucial to their survival as a people.
According to him, they could use their savings to fund their children's education, maintain personal hygiene and keep their surroundings clean to guard against the emergence of diseases.
"Savings culture is the route to individual and national development", he said.
The Head of Customer Service in-charge of Retail of Barclays, Mrs Margaret Takyi-Micah, said Barclays had been in existence for 300 years in the world and 90 years in Ghana, and had enriched the experience and security of the bank.
She, therefore, asked the people to save with the bank to reap the numerous benefits that the bank offered.
The Maamobi Branch Manager, Ms Christie Amoah, metioned savings, current accounts, business account, instant, high rate savings and high rate account as some of the products of the bank.
The Chairman of the Ayawaso Council of Muslim chiefs, Chief Imoro Baba Issa, who chaired the function, stressed the need for the people to save their money at the bank to avoid losing their money through robbery or any other means.