Toyota Ghana supports three-year-old patient

Toyota Ghana Company Limited, has donated GH¢7,400. for the treatment of a three-year-old girl, Latifa Karim, who is suffering from cancer of the eye.

The donation is in response to an appeal launched on her behalf by the Daily Graphic, the flagship newspaper of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL).
Latifa is currently receiving treatment at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.

The company’s employees made personal contributions of GH¢2,400 and was topped up with GH¢5,000 by the management.

Presentation

Mr Andrew B. Lamptey, the Sales and Marketing Manager of Toyota, led a five-member delegation to the premises of the GCGL in Accra, to make the donation.

In a brief speech, he expressed Toyota Ghana’s delight at being able to offer help to someone in need.

“We hope that this initiative will go a long way towards bringing Latifa back to health since no one knows the kind of benefit she will bring to society”, he said.

Mr Lamptey said Toyota Ghana’s social responsibility programme covered areas including health, sanitation, environment and education, hence its decision to help Latifa.

Mr Emmanuel Agyei Arthur, the Corporate Communications Manager of the GCGL, who received the money on behalf of the hospital, thanked the delegation for the support.

“We are most grateful to socially responsible organisations such as yours and we hope that this initiative will revive the old relationship that we had before,” he added.

He briefed the delegation on a ‘Needy Fund’ to be launched by the GCGL to raise funds for needy patients throughout the country.  

Mr Arthur explained that at every point in time, there were patients on the “Needy Fund” file seeking assistance for various medical conditions and requested Toyota to help “when” the fund raising project is launched.

Background

On March 2, 2017, the Graphic Needy Fund launched an appeal in the Daily Graphic for Latifa, a native of Zoosali, a village in the Savelugu Nanton Municipality in the Northern Region, who needed to undergo surgery for eye cancer.

So far, some socially responsible organisations and individuals have contributed various amounts towards the surgery and her treatment.