MARKETING and Products Manager, Jennifer Cipriani-Nelson has said Scotiabank (Guyana) is committed to contributing, in meaningful ways, to the improvement of the lives of Guyanese children and youths in the areas of health, education, sports, arts and culture and the environment.

She said the institution has a continuous programme of donations and sponsorships, at the community level, for such groups.
Ms. Cipriani-Nelson disclosed that the Bank’s Bright Future Programme, which donated $190,000, last week, to the Buxton Youth Developers is its corporate arm which channels funds and employee volunteer hours towards initiatives that benefit mainly children.
That donation will go towards financing the beneficiary group’s after school activities in which dozens of children benefit from homework assistance, remedial classes and sporting events, she said.
Cipriani-Nelson added: “Scotiabank, with its focus on a wide range of children and youth-based charities, is always open to requests for such donations.”
She made the disclosures while commenting on the activities of the Bank in pursuit of its corporate social responsibility to children and youths under the Bright Future Programme.
According to her, from 2010 to the end of last year the Bank, through that scheme, staged a total of 120 events and its staffers volunteered 2,637 hours for the benefit of 45,000 children.
Major activities
Some of the major activities included donations amounting to several million dollars to organisations, among them the Scotiabank/Pepsi Schools’ Football Academy; the Periwinkle Club; Childlink’s Tell Scheme; Step by Step Foundation; Rotary Club of Stabroek National Quiz; the Rotary Club of Demerara Sanitation Block at Kuru Kururu Nursery School; Ruimveldt Children’s Aid Centre; Mercy Wings Vocational Institute; St. Ann’s Orphanage and Cheshire Home.
In addition, Cipriani-Nelson said many others have benefitted from employee volunteerism, like Habitat for Humanity; Red Cross Convalescent Home; Lions Club of D’Urban Park; Save ‘R’ Kids Orphanage; Bless Our Children Home; Salvation Army and Alpha Children’s Home.
She said Scotiabank employees have also pooled personal resources to help the less fortunate, such as purchasing gifts for children in homes during their annual Christmas carolling exercise; to help children get life-saving surgery and, recently, senior management donated to the Drop In Centre for Children.