Hundreds of people, including
the wife of the Lagos State governor, Mrs Bolanle Ambode and CEO, Stanbic IBTC
Holdings, Sola David-Borha, on Saturday in Lagos took part in a charity walk
tagged ‘Out for a Limb’ organized by Stanbic IBTC Holdings and Irede Foundation
as part of activities to raise awareness for children without limbs.
The walk, which was flagged of
by Mrs Ambode at about 7am from the corporate offices of Stanbic IBTC on Walter
Carrington Crescent, took participants through Ozumba Mbadiwe, Victoria Island,
to the Lagos Law School and back to Walter Carrington.
At the flag off, David-Borha
thanked Mrs Ambode and her team for honouring the call to participate in the
walk at such short notice. She also thanked Stanbic IBTC staff and other
participants for coming out in their numbers to support such a worthy cause.
The CEO said the activity is part of the corporate social investments of
Stanbic IBTC, which is focused on three key areas of human life: health,
education, and economic empowerment. She said the bank’s support for Irede
Foundation, an NGO established to cater for the prosthetic needs of children
without limbs, is in two folds, health and education as she assured that the
bank will not only provide prostheses for the children with limb losses but
that their educational needs will equally be met.
According to David-Borha, “Stanbic
IBTC, as part of our corporate social responsibility, has three areas of focus:
health, education and economic empowerment. We wanted to have a flagship cause
that people will identify us with and we did a survey among the staff and
arrived at health for children, which was then narrowed down to prosthesis. We
are focused on children who are not well supported so that we can make a real
difference in their lives.”
While flagging off the walk,
Mrs Ambode said Stanbic IBTC has been known over the years for its invaluable
corporate social investment projects, particularly in education where it
continues to build libraries and provide books for schools in the state. “The
event (the charity walk) will go down in history as one of those with the most
profound impacts on the children of this country,” Mrs Ambode said. She assured
that Stanbic IBTC can count on her support and that of Lagos State on such a
worthy cause. “Stanbic IBTC deserves profound commendation for the diligent and
consistent execution of its corporate social investment projects,” Mrs Ambode
added.
At a short ceremony after the
walk, Stanbic IBTC presented cheques to beneficiaries to cover their prostheses
and their educational needs. CE of Irede Foundation, Crystal Chigbu, while thanking Stanbic IBTC for its
support said, “The interesting thing about what Stanbic IBTC is doing is the
fact that it is going beyond giving limbs and giving education to those
children. I personally am excited with what we are doing with Stanbic IBTC.”
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