Heritage Bank Plc has donated a bus to a Cerebral Palsy Centre in Surulere, Lagos, with a promise to show more commitment towards helping physically challenged children become relevant in the society.
Davidson Regha, a senior staff member of the bank, who presented the key of the vehicle to the management of the centre, observed that every child deserves care irrespective of his or her condition.
“We are committed as a bank, and we would see how we can adopt the centre as one of our corporate social responsibilities to the society,” he said.
“We believe that when people are small, we take them from the infancy level to be able to grow them from when they go through education, the start working, get married and begin to create wealth.
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“The culture of Heritage Bank is creating and transmission of wealth and that can only be achieved after identifying people regardless of their social class or status.”
Nonye Nwike, founder of the centre, told TheCable that one of the greatest challenges of running the centre was funding.
She said the centre relies on donations from individuals and corporate bodies in order to be able to perform its responsibilities.
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“Often, it falls short of what is required to run the centre on a day-to-day, month-by-month, and year-by-year basis,” she said.
“So often, we have to carry cap in hand, bowl in hand, to beg, to pay rents, to pay staff salaries at times; that is one major challenge.”
She appreciated the bank and called on publicly-spirited individuals and organisations to also extend support to the centre.
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Well done, Heritage Bank. This is one of those areas where Nigeria’s mega rich are lacking compared to the western world. We need to develop our ability to emphasize with less privileged citizens in the society and contribute our widows’ mite to making their lives more meaningful.