ASA Savings supports 2 health facilities, 25 C/R students
Micro finance company, ASA Savings and Loans Limited, has presented essential medical items to two health facilities in the Greater Accra Region at two events and offered educational support to 25 needy brilliant students in the Central Region.
While the support to health facilities aims to enhance their capacity to provide quality healthcare to the communities they serve, the educational support to students is designed to help their parents afford their education.
The donations to the Kpone Hospital in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality and Manheam Polyclinic in the Tema Metropolis were made following a needs assessment of the two facilities.
The items included two mobile oxygen units with flow meters and trolleys, two wheelchairs, a microscope, a vein finder, rechargeable lamps, a pulse oximeter, drip stands, blood pressure monitors, electronic weighing scales, bedsheets and sanitary items such as Veronica buckets.
Handing over the equipment at two separate ceremonies held at the forecourt of the two health facilities last Tuesday, both the Kpone Area Manager of ASA Savings and Loans Limited, Justice Korsah, and the Tema Manhean Business Centre Manager, Mary Colette Arthur, stated that the gesture was meant to support the health facilities in delivering quality healthcare to the people of Tema Manhean and Kpone.
Mr Korsah stated that ASA Savings consulted the hospital to assess their needs as an organisation working within the community.
This resulted in providing items to support the healthcare needs of the local people.
In line with its corporate social responsibility, Ms Arthur stated that the organisation aimed to make healthcare services accessible to community members, hence the intervention.
She hoped the gesture would significantly assist people in the metropolis to receive quality healthcare.
Commendation
The Administrator of the Kpone Hospital, Nafisa Sanusi, appreciated the donors for their gesture, highlighting that it would support the facility in providing quality care to clients, especially in areas such as effective handwashing practices and improve overall care.
Mary Colette Arthur, (2nd from left ), Tema Manhean Business Centre Manager of ASA Savings and Loans Limited, handing over the items to Dr Anita Ofosu Boateng, Medical Officer, Manhean Polyclinic, while Justice Korsah (left), Kpone Area Manager of ASA Savings and Loans, looks on
She mentioned that the facility faced challenges, including issues with water supply, which compelled it to rely on water tanker services.
She also praised the organisation for donating some Veronica buckets to improve water storage and encourage handwashing within the facility.
She appealed for continuous support to tackle the water supply issue, further enhancing the facility's services.
“The donation is a testament to the power of partnership and will benefit the people of Kpone and beyond, she said, adding that “the facility is committed to delivering quality healthcare, and this donation will go a long way in achieving that goal.
The support is valued and will make a real difference.”
Patient care
A Medical Officer at the Tema Manhean Polyclinic, Dr Anita Ofosu-Boateng, expressed gratitude to ASA Savings and Loans for their generous support, which she said would improve healthcare services and enhance patient care at the polyclinic.
Dr Ofosu-Boateng urged other corporate organisations to follow ASA's example of kindness, highlighting the significance of collaboration in providing quality healthcare to the community and enhancing the overall health of Ghanaians.
Students
At another event at the ASA office in Cape Coast last Monday, 25 needy but brilliant students, accompanied by their parents and guardians, were presented with cheques totalling GH¢25,000 in educational support from the company’s educational support scheme.
The students, all wards of the company's clients in the Petrol area (Cape Coast), were supported as part of the company's corporate social responsibility, aimed at helping its vulnerable clients to support their wards through school.
Each beneficiary chosen from the basic to tertiary levels received GH¢1,000.
One of the beneficiaries, Angela Opoku Boateng, a level 200 student at the Assinman Nursing and Midwifery School, said the support was timely.
‘’It will help me a lot. I need a laptop so this money can be topped up and I can purchase it.
‘’I am pleased with this gesture. It relieves me greatly and I thank the company for it,” she said happily.
Another beneficiary, Justice Effah, a level 200 student of the Foso College of Education, said the financial stress in schools would ease with the gesture.
"There are feeding and learning materials we buy all the time. The money will help ease my financial burden at school. It will help pay my examination fees and my upkeep,” he said.
He praised the company for its efforts and encouraged institutions to support the government in developing the human resources essential for national development.
In his remarks, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability Manager of ASA Savings and Loans Limited, Richard Nartey, said the gesture formed part of the company's CSR initiative.
Supporting clients
He said the company realised that some of its clients were spending a significant part of their business loans on their wards' education, negatively affecting clients' businesses.
He said that support for clients' wards was part of the company's pledge to ease clients' financial burden and maintain their businesses, adding that 25 beneficiaries would soon receive support in the Kasoa operations area.
Mr Nartey stated that the clients' well-being was vital for the company and it was dedicated to creating initiatives that would alleviate some of their financial difficulties.
He said the gesture was also a testament to the fact that the company would not relentlessly promote client financial awareness and literacy to improve their businesses and living conditions further.
The Human Resource Officer at the Cape Coast Metropolitan Directorate of Education, Bennet Tachie Oware, said the gesture would ease the burden on the beneficiaries and positively impact families.
He encouraged them to aim higher and take their education seriously to reach greater heights and give back to society.
