THE management of Amal Bank Ghana Limited in Tamale has presented an amount of GH¢500 to the University for Development Studies (UDS).
The donation is in response to the university’s request to enable it to hold its annual interfaculty lectures which are held three times a year for research purposes. The next lectures would be held in August.
The bank is the first corporate body to offer such support. According to the business manager of the bank in Tamale, Mr Yusuf Abu Wubey, the donation formed part of the bank’s social responsibility.
“We are very responsive to the needs of the communities in which we operate and as the bank grows in the region, we intend to extend such support to other needy institutions and organisations to ensure excellence”, he said.
The manager, however, urged the people to patronise the services of the bank, which, he said, had very beneficial products to offer its customers. The bank was established in Tamale in July 2008.
The Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the UDS, Professor David Millar, who received the cheque, expressed appreciation to the management of the bank for their timely response.
He urged individuals and corporate bodies to support the university to achieve its mandate to promote not only academic excellence but also facilitate equitable and socio-economic transformation of deprived communities in the North in particular and the country as a whole.
The Pro-VC explained that this would be achieved through problem solving, gender-sensitive community-based and interactive as well as lifelong research, learning and outreach programmes.
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