Kofi Ahovi

Nestle Ghana Limited has commenced the third edition of one of its flagship programmes dubbed “The Nido Nutrition Day”. This forms part of activities to mark its 60 years anniversary celebrations in Ghana. The 2017 edition commenced last Saturday at the Sowa Din Memorial School complex near Ashale Botwe in Accra. The programme seeks to educate mothers and caregivers on the importance of good nutrition through series of talks, drama and games under the strong supervision and endorsement of the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the School Health Education Programme (SHEP) in basic schools. It forms part of the commitments of Nestlé Ghana to contributing to healthier lives for individuals and families. According to Nestle Ghana, similar public education events on nutrition have been planned to for various basic schools across the country. The event saw over 200 mothers and caregivers anxiously trooping to the grounds for information. Some of them eventually won scholarships for the

Telecommunications giant, Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN), has exceeded its target of 2,017 pints of blood by collecting a total of 2,551 at its 6th annual blood donation exercise. Since inception, the MTN campaign has collected a total of 6,302 pints of blood on behalf of the blood bank. This year’s exercise dubbed “operation 2017”, had 12 ‘bleeding centres’ across the country where the general public including staff of MTN expressed their love on Valentine’s Day by donating blood to shore up the national blood bank. Every year, for the past six years, MTN organizes a blood donation exercise at its regional offices and some vantage points to provide opportunity for people to donate blood Briefing the media during the exercise, the Executive Director of MTN Foundation, Mrs. Cynthia Lumor noted that the exercise was in response to a distress call by the Ghana Blood Bank to help stock its bank. She noted “exercise has been hugely successful”. According to her, the natio