Africa-Press – Botswana. Standard Chartered Bank Botswana (SCBB) has donated a mobile freezer to Oliphant’s Drift Village Development Committee (VDC), four computers to the village primary school and toiletry to the underprivileged children in Oliphant’s Drift.
Speaking during a ceremony to accept the donations in Oliphant’s Drift on November 17, Mochudi East MP, Mr Mabuse Pule thanked the bank for its generosity.
He said the marvelous act of benevolence shown by the bank under the theme “Good Deeds” emphasized the notion of doing well to fellow human beings and impacting the less privileged with activities that are meant to benefit them.
Mr Pule, who is also the Assistant Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, said the corporate social responsibility that the bank undertook in Oliphant’s Drift since 2022 was something not to be overlooked.
“We appreciate that this outreach programme is not the first of its kind done by SCBB in this community and that it’s not only an activity of corporate social responsibility by the bank but encompasses volunteering from the staff,” he said. “Such display of selfless love and devotion by employees is touching and commendable more especially that it is done to the people in harder to reach communities.”
The bank’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Mpho Masupe, said giving back to the community was something that they upheld as a bank and that they believed very much in positively impacting people’s lives.
Mr Masupe said people in rural areas should not be left behind when resources were allocated and that the donations that the bank gave would become a building block for a stronger and more prosperous society.
Kgosi Michael Balebetse of Mmathubudukwane said the bank’s connection with people from diverse backgrounds would create a sustainable economic development where resources would be shared equally.
He said the Oliphant’s Drift Primary School would benefit from the ground breaking of the fibre optic internet connectivity project which was recently launched in Oodi through the donated computers.
He also said the mobile freezer donated would generate income for the VDC as they could rent it out to fishermen in the community and use the proceeds complete community projects.
He urged the community to take care of the donations so that they may as well be used by the future generation.
The bank employees summarized the day by planting trees at the school, kgotla and VDC offices.
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