GNPC Foundation teamed up with Karela FC, a Premiership side based at Anyinase in the Ellembele District to undertake a clean-up exercise at Ngelekazo and Beyin in the Jomoro District of the Western Region on Tuesday, May 1, 2018.

The team which has a social commitment to the welfare of the neighbouring towns released their players to join the Foundation’s staff and the indigenes to clean the seaweed and other debris along the Coast. The clean-upexercise which started in the morning covered a distance of five 5KM. Health campaigns and protection of the environment is of particular importance to the Foundation as it forms part of the main tenets of its operations.

After the exercise, the Executive Director of GNPC Foundation, Dr Kwame Baah- Nuakoh in addressing the gathering emphasized on the need to keep the environment clean and tidy at all times to forestall communicable and water borne diseases such as malaria, cholera, diarrhoea and amoebic dysentery. This is one of many activities being undertaken by GNPC to improve the quality of life of the people of the Western Region.

In order not to make the clean-up exercise a flash in the pan, he donated the cleaning equipment (rakes, shovels, gloves, lawn brooms) to the communities to use for periodic clean-ups in a competitive manner.” I give you these equipment on behalf of GNPC Foundation, use them to do your own regular clean-ups as part of the sanitation competition which will be instituted by GNPC Foundation and Karela FC. I will appoint some of my officers to come down for unannounced inspection, the town with the cleanest environment will be rewarded with a Development Project of its choice” he echoed.

He also used the opportunity to highlight some of the corporate social investment(CSI) projects done by GNPC within the Region which includes awarding of over 250 Scholarships to students from the Region to study STEM subjects in the public tertiary institutions, provision of equipment and financial support for some Secondary and Technical Schools, completion of accident and emergency unit for Half Assini Government Hospital and 6-Unit Classroom Block for Effia Nkwanta Nursing and Midwifery School and a 160 bed dormitory capacity for Sekondi School for the Deaf, among others.

The CEO of Karela FC, David Cobbina Brigidi thanked GNPC for the collaboration in the clean-up exercise and commended the Corporation for the interventions done in the area to impact the lives of the people.