Access Bank Plc has won seven awards at the 2024 Sustainability and Social Investment Awards (SSI Awards) held in Accra, featuring its obligation to creative and effective green drives.
The bank's lead project, "A Shoe Something else for a Superior Tomorrow," which started in 2023, procured three outstanding awards: SSI Project of the Year (Education), Best Company in Recycling Education and Practices, and Innovative Project of the Year.
The task, one of the bank's CSI drives, tries to give north of 20,000 shoes in its stage two to oppressed younger students the nation over this year in the wake of giving thousand shoes in stage one final year.
It presents an inventive approach to upcycle utilized vehicle tires into quality, eco-accommodating school shoes pointed toward giving agreeable footwear to denied younger students. An intriguing component of the second period of the task is the "Better Tomorrow Truck," which is dispersing shoes across every one of the 16 locales of Ghana.
The truck is visiting 200 schools chosen by one of our venture accomplices Ghana Education Service (GES) and ideas from staff of Access Bank and through our virtual entertainment engagement, guaranteeing that the drive arrives at really meriting youngsters across Ghana.
Moreover, to balance the outflows from the Better Tomorrow Truck's excursion, Access Bank (Ghana) Plc and its accomplices; Rana Engines and Horseman Shoes, have focused on establishing trees in all schools visited across every one of the 16 areas, showing the project's devotion to ecological supportability.
The task has additionally made economical positions for north of 500 neighborhood shoemakers in the Ashanti Locale, who are answerable for delivering the shoes, exhibiting the idea of waste-to-riches.
In other milestone wins, Managing Director, Olumide Olatunji was named 'SSI CEO of the Year' for his visionary administration and his help on ecological and social drives the bank champions the nation over.
In his comments, Olumide Olatunji offered thanks for the acknowledgment, expressing that: "These honors come when we are celebrating 15 years of engaging lives and progressing manageable turn of events."
"We stay focused on giving reasonable supporting, rousing Africa, enabling associations, and elevating Become environmentally friendly drives to fabricate a greener, more feasible future for all. We trust in the force of little activities adding to extraordinary effects. This is obvious in our initiatives in enabling youngsters," he made sense of.
Mr Oluwaseun David-Akindele, Head of Corporate Communications, was awarded the SSI Sustainability Professional of the Year.
"We could never have accomplished this without the help of every one of our accomplices on our different manageability projects. At Access Bank, we trust in the force of organizations to drive significant effects. An exceptional thank you to every one of our accomplices, The board and Staff, clients, and our online entertainment local area for their unflinching obligation to achieving these striking accomplishments," Mr David-Akindele said.