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BLESS the Children Home, an orphanage on the East Coast of Demerara, was last week the beneficiary of a donation of $100,000 from the local Scotiabank, under the Bank’s Bright Future programme.
Marketing Manager of the local bank, Mrs Jennifer Cipriani-Nelson, said the money given to the Home represented a cash prize Scotiabankers from the Credit Risk and Collections departments received from the bank’s Bright Future Awards in an internal programme geared towards rewarding employees for volunteerism in their communities.
Bless The Children Home, opened on October 1, 2008, caters for about 25 children, and is managed by Pastor and Mrs Surujpaul, who with their family gave up the life they were living in the USA to answer what they believe was a calling from God.
Employees of the Credit Risk and Collections departments have been volunteering at the orphanage for the past several years.
Mrs. Cipriani-Nelson disclosed
that the Bright Future programme is the bank’s global philanthropic programme which brings together all of the bank’s charitable, social and community efforts and employee volunteer activities under one banner.
Through the Bright Future programme, the bank aims its charitable efforts to be relevant and responsive to the needs of each community at the grassroots level, and provide support across the fields of health, arts, education, social services, sports and the environment.
In the Caribbean, Latin and Central America, the programme focuses primarily on children and children’s causes.
Over each of the last five years, Scotiabank has provided on average approximately Cdn$45 million annually to community causes around the world.
Mrs. Cipriani-Nelson said that, through the global philanthropic programme, the bank is committed to supporting communities in which it operates the Scotiabank Bright Future.
Marketing Manager of the local bank, Mrs Jennifer Cipriani-Nelson, said the money given to the Home represented a cash prize Scotiabankers from the Credit Risk and Collections departments received from the bank’s Bright Future Awards in an internal programme geared towards rewarding employees for volunteerism in their communities.
Bless The Children Home, opened on October 1, 2008, caters for about 25 children, and is managed by Pastor and Mrs Surujpaul, who with their family gave up the life they were living in the USA to answer what they believe was a calling from God.
Employees of the Credit Risk and Collections departments have been volunteering at the orphanage for the past several years.
Mrs. Cipriani-Nelson disclosed
that the Bright Future programme is the bank’s global philanthropic programme which brings together all of the bank’s charitable, social and community efforts and employee volunteer activities under one banner.
Through the Bright Future programme, the bank aims its charitable efforts to be relevant and responsive to the needs of each community at the grassroots level, and provide support across the fields of health, arts, education, social services, sports and the environment.
In the Caribbean, Latin and Central America, the programme focuses primarily on children and children’s causes.
Over each of the last five years, Scotiabank has provided on average approximately Cdn$45 million annually to community causes around the world.
Mrs. Cipriani-Nelson said that, through the global philanthropic programme, the bank is committed to supporting communities in which it operates the Scotiabank Bright Future.
