BMW Club Ghana embarks on humanitarian mission
BMW Club Gh President, Kojo Oppong and Dr. Asante
Appiah, presenting the items to the
Headmistress of Sagakope D/A Basic C
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Owners and lovers of BMW vehicle, BMW Club Ghana, has embarked on a humanitarian mission
to support Sogakope DA Basic C School as it marks it's one-year
anniversary.
BMW Club Ghana, donated a modern canteen edifice
and other ancillary to the school with the aim of helping to ensure that
students have a hygienic environment to eat and learn.
One Child, One Book
(1C1B) Project, the main Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
initiative of the club, also donated about 500 branded exercise books, text books,
mathematical sets and dictionaries to the school.
Other items donated to
the school include; hand washing bowls and buckets, shoes, dresses and
foodstuffs as well as bags of sachet water.
The donation event, was
held concurrently with Drive Tours (DTs), a quarterly
activity of the club during which they embark on a long distance drive as a
form of exercise and for fun.
The President, BMW Club Ghana,
Benjamin Kwadwo Oppong, indicated that the club was officially accepted and certified by the African BMW Club
about a year ago and as part of its one year anniversary celebration
activities, decided to support the
school with that project.
“…as a car club, driving
forms part of our major activities
which is dubbed
Drive Tours. So, we drive on long distance journey and tour
the country which is also a form of tourism. We have previously
been to Kumasi, Akosombo and Takoradi.
“Usually on our drive tours,
we add some humanitarian activity to it so that we can be able to benefit
others in the communities we visit. We have previous done a donation to Kumasi
Children Home, branded vest and reflectors to Ghana Police Service, and also
paid tolls for about 3000 drivers at the Tema Motorway.
"This
time around we decided to drive to Sogakope so we adopted the Sogakope DA C
School and we realised that their canteen was very deplorable so we actually
built a new canteen for them and provided them with white boards in their
classrooms,” he said.
The Headmistress,
Sogakope DA Basic C, Justine Dorglo, expressed her profound gratitude to the
Club for the assistance but also made an appeal to corporate Ghana and
government to come to their aid as the school also lacks library and computer
laboratory.
“BMW Club Ghana came
to us some few weeks ago that they want to help us and at the time, our
deplorable canteen was a major problem to us, so they promised to provide us
with a new one and thankfully, today they have fulfilled their promise.
“The books, 10 white
boards among other items provided, will go a long way to enhance academic works
and the modern canteen facility will also protect our students from contracting
diseases like cholera and diarrhea,” she said.
BMW Club Ghana
is basically for owners of BMW automobile. However, membership is opened to
anybody who is a lover of the brand.
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