{"id":39102,"date":"2023-11-22T18:36:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T18:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/?p=39102"},"modified":"2023-11-22T17:13:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:13:37","slug":"scbb-donates-to-oliphants-drift-vdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/scbb-donates-to-oliphants-drift-vdc","title":{"rendered":"SCBB DONATES TO OLIPHANTS DRIFT VDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Standard Chartered Bank Botswana (SCBB) has donated a mobile freezer to Oliphant\u2019s Drift Village Development Committee (VDC), four computers to the village primary school and toiletry to the underprivileged children in Oliphant\u2019s Drift.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a ceremony to accept the donations in Oliphant\u2019s Drift on November 17, Mochudi East MP, Mr Mabuse Pule thanked the bank for its generosity.<\/p>\n<p>He said the marvelous act of benevolence shown by the bank under the theme \u201cGood Deeds\u201d emphasized the notion of doing well to fellow human beings and impacting the less privileged with activities that are meant to benefit them.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Drift since 2022 was something not to be overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate that this outreach programme is not the first of its kind done by SCBB in this community and that it\u2019s not only an activity of corporate social responsibility by the bank but encompasses volunteering from the staff,\u201d he said. \u201cSuch 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bank\u2019s 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\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Kgosi Michael Balebetse of Mmathubudukwane said the bank\u2019s connection with people from diverse backgrounds would create a sustainable economic development where resources would be shared equally.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Oliphant\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the community to take care of the donations so that they may as well be used by the future generation.<\/p>\n<p>The bank employees summarized the day by planting trees at the school, kgotla and VDC offices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. Standard Chartered Bank Botswana (SCBB) has donated a mobile freezer to Oliphant\u2019s Drift Village Development Committee (VDC), four computers to the village primary school and toiletry to the underprivileged children in Oliphant\u2019s Drift. Speaking during a ceremony to accept the donations in Oliphant\u2019s Drift on November 17, Mochudi East MP, Mr Mabuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":39101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-39102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SCBB DONATES TO OLIPHANTS DRIFT VDC - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Standard Chartered Bank Botswana (SCBB) has donated a mobile freezer to Oliphant\u2019s Drift Village Development Committe ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/scbb-donates-to-oliphants-drift-vdc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SCBB DONATES TO OLIPHANTS DRIFT VDC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Standard Chartered Bank Botswana (SCBB) has donated a mobile freezer to Oliphant\u2019s Drift Village Development Committe ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/scbb-donates-to-oliphants-drift-vdc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-22T18:36:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/11\/sm_1700660144.595254.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1134\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"524\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/scbb-donates-to-oliphants-drift-vdc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/scbb-donates-to-oliphants-drift-vdc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"SCBB DONATES TO OLIPHANTS DRIFT VDC\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-22T18:36:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/scbb-donates-to-oliphants-drift-vdc\"},\"wordCount\":419,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/scbb-donates-to-oliphants-drift-vdc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/11\/sm_1700660144.595254.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/scbb-donates-to-oliphants-drift-vdc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/scbb-donates-to-oliphants-drift-vdc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/scbb-donates-to-oliphants-drift-vdc\",\"name\":\"SCBB DONATES TO OLIPHANTS DRIFT VDC - 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