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SCOTIABANKERS from the Robb Street, Georgetown branch, handed over close to $1.5M, on Monday, April 15, to two organisations involved with cancer awareness and prevention programmes. Avon Community Help Fund and the Periwinkle Club were delighted to receive the cheques, representing proceeds from a cake sale conducted by bank employees, late last year, and matching funds provided by Scotiabank’s Bright Future Programme.
The annual cake sale, in aid of cancer awareness and providing medical assistance to patients, started some 12 years ago.
The Robb Street branch, which, traditionally, raises funds for the cause, has partnered with the Periwinkle Club over the last seven years.
In 2012, the branch added a new beneficiary, the Avon Community Help Fund which has a group that supports breast cancer awareness in Guyana.
The Periwinkle Club is a charitable organisation established seven years ago and helps to finance the care of cancer patients and survivors and provides relief for them. The club cared for some 60 individuals during 2012.
Meanwhile, the Avon Community Help Fund has been providing service to women for the past seven years and is especially geared towards medically underserved and uninsured women in Guyana.
In the month of October, the source provided free screening services, including mammograms for high risk women.
During that same month, the Robb Street staff wore pink t-shirts on Fridays to raise awareness of breast cancer and the disease in general and also used the opportunity to tell customers about the cake sale.
Staffers at other branches supported the awareness aspect of the initiative, by wearing pink and those in Robb Street encouraged all employees countrywide to contribute to the sale by donating cakes or giving time or money to the initiative.
GRACIOUSLY SUPPORTED
It was graciously supported by private organisations, customers and shoppers as well as by friends and family members of employees.
Under the volunteering component of the Bank’s Bright Future Programme, employees gave a total of 1,452 volunteer hours raising awareness of cancer prevention and planning and executing the cake sale last year, when it was held in front of the Robb Street branch.
A release said:”Scotiabank is committed to supporting the communities in which we live and work through our global philanthropic programme, Scotiabank Bright Future. Recognised as a leader internationally and among Canadian corporations for our charitable donations and philanthropic activities, Scotiabank has provided, on average, approximately CDN$45 million annually to community causes around the world, over each of the last five years.”
“Visit us at www.scotiabank.com,” the release encouraged.
It said the Scotiabank Bright Future Programme is the bank’s global philanthropic campaign which brings together all of its charitable, social and community efforts and employee volunteer activities under one banner.
Through it, the bank’s charitable activities are aimed at being relevant and responsive to the needs of each community at a grassroots level and provides support across the fields of health,the arts, education, social services, sports and the environment.
In the Caribbean, Latin and Central America, the programme focuses, primarily, on children and their causes, the bank said.
The annual cake sale, in aid of cancer awareness and providing medical assistance to patients, started some 12 years ago.
The Robb Street branch, which, traditionally, raises funds for the cause, has partnered with the Periwinkle Club over the last seven years.
In 2012, the branch added a new beneficiary, the Avon Community Help Fund which has a group that supports breast cancer awareness in Guyana.
The Periwinkle Club is a charitable organisation established seven years ago and helps to finance the care of cancer patients and survivors and provides relief for them. The club cared for some 60 individuals during 2012.
Meanwhile, the Avon Community Help Fund has been providing service to women for the past seven years and is especially geared towards medically underserved and uninsured women in Guyana.
In the month of October, the source provided free screening services, including mammograms for high risk women.
During that same month, the Robb Street staff wore pink t-shirts on Fridays to raise awareness of breast cancer and the disease in general and also used the opportunity to tell customers about the cake sale.
Staffers at other branches supported the awareness aspect of the initiative, by wearing pink and those in Robb Street encouraged all employees countrywide to contribute to the sale by donating cakes or giving time or money to the initiative.
GRACIOUSLY SUPPORTED
It was graciously supported by private organisations, customers and shoppers as well as by friends and family members of employees.
Under the volunteering component of the Bank’s Bright Future Programme, employees gave a total of 1,452 volunteer hours raising awareness of cancer prevention and planning and executing the cake sale last year, when it was held in front of the Robb Street branch.
A release said:”Scotiabank is committed to supporting the communities in which we live and work through our global philanthropic programme, Scotiabank Bright Future. Recognised as a leader internationally and among Canadian corporations for our charitable donations and philanthropic activities, Scotiabank has provided, on average, approximately CDN$45 million annually to community causes around the world, over each of the last five years.”
“Visit us at www.scotiabank.com,” the release encouraged.
It said the Scotiabank Bright Future Programme is the bank’s global philanthropic campaign which brings together all of its charitable, social and community efforts and employee volunteer activities under one banner.
Through it, the bank’s charitable activities are aimed at being relevant and responsive to the needs of each community at a grassroots level and provides support across the fields of health,the arts, education, social services, sports and the environment.
In the Caribbean, Latin and Central America, the programme focuses, primarily, on children and their causes, the bank said.
