Ecobank Ghana supports Hope College
Situated at Fetteh in the Gomoa East District in the Central Region, the Village of Hope Orphanage, which started about two decades ago, has been developed into a group of various ministries who attend to the needs of thousands of children and adults with support from philanthropic individuals and organisations.
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With such support, the village had, over the years, provided for the inmates in the areas of childcare, healthcare, and education.
Over the past 10 years, Ecobank Ghana has supported the village in that regard, and within the past four years the bank has presented over GH¢500,000 to the Hope College at Fetteh, to cover the infrastructural development and scholarships to students.
Sponsorship
According to the Managing Director of the bank, Mr Morgan Asiedu, since 2015, Ecobank Ghana has sponsored about 50 children through their education at the Village of Hope Secondary.
Speaking at the inauguration of an administration block constructed by the bank for the Hope College at a cost of GH¢350,000 to aid in the administrative services in the school, Mr Asiedu said the bank’s interest in supporting the Village of Hope School was the fact that the school focused on taking care of orphans.
“These orphans who would have had no hope and would have been wayward and engage in various vices, have had a reason to live decently, achieve their dreams and contribute to the development of Ghana through quality education by the Village of Hope,” he said.
He indicated that as part of the bank’s 25th anniversary celebrations in 2015, the bank made a commitment to fund the construction of an ultramodern administrative block for the school and had kept the promise.
He opined that the world’s economy thrived and developed through knowledge and the 21st century education which promoted innovation and technology could only be achieved through education.
According to him, with the quality of education being given to the students of the Village of Hope, the students could compete with their counterparts all over the world.
The Managing Director of the Village of Hope, Mr Fred Asare, commended the bank for the intervention and said it would provide a congenial atmosphere to promote better administrative services and more space for academic work.
History
The story of the Village of Hope began in 1989 when an idea was conceived for the establishment of an orphanage to take care of children from all over the country.
Eventually, in February 1996, the Village of Hope was officially established with eight children, two house parents, a security man, a managing director and a board of directors.
From a humble beginning of about 25 acres of land space, the Village now owns 90 acres of prime land, thanks to the benevolence of the Chief of Gomoa-Fetteh, Nana Abor Yamoah, who has promised to extend the land when the need arises.