Fidelity Bank Supports Over 100,000 Vulnerable Households with Food Packs
According to a news report from Daily Trust, more than one hundred thousand vulnerable households and underprivileged families across Nigeria have benefited from food pack distributions by Fidelity Bank.
The Executive Technical Assistant to the Managing Director/CEO of the bank, Mr Adebayo Adeyinka, disclosed this over the weekend in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
The initiative, conducted in collaboration with the Office of the State First Lady, Professor Olufolake AbdulRazaq, is part of the bank's social responsibility efforts.
In Ilorin alone, over 3,000 individuals benefited from this generous gesture.
According to Adebayo, “We have visited more than ten states where we think there are challenges of food insecurity to support the government's efforts.
“It was a vision conceived by the MD/CEO, Dr Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe and we have distributed over a hundred thousand packs since we started.
“The message is whether you are an individual or a corporate body, do whatever you can to reach out to the less privileged in their society especially during this economic situation”, he added.
On her part, the Regional Bank Head, South West 2 (Kwara,Osun and Ekiti), Mr Morenike Olabisi said through the initiative, the bank is also helping to meet the Sustainable Development Goal 2 which is zero hunger.
“We created this platform to contribute our quota to the reduction of hunger, poverty, malnutrition and infant/maternal mortality and beneficiariea cut across the six geo-political zones in the country”, she added.
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