FBNBank supports Green Ghana Project

Pantang Hospital in the La Nkwatanang Municipality in the Greater Accra Region.

The Green Ghana Project is an initiative of the Government of Ghana which started in 2021 with a day set aside, dubbed, ‘Green Ghana Day’, to create awareness across the country on the need for collective action towards the restoration of the country’s lost forest cover. The government is targeting to plant some 10 million trees this year. Some benets of Green Ghana include inculcating in the country and above all mitigate climate change.

FBNBank’s contribution of Twenty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHS20,000) was made in line with the Bank’s Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability (CR&S) agenda which has the environment as one of its pillars.

Making the presentation, Mr. Victor Yaw Asante, the Managing Director of FBNBank and the Rotary District 9102 Governor said, “conserving the environment is a to the relationship with its stakeholders as a whole, particularly the customers.”

The cheque was received on behalf of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources by the Honourable Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Mr. Benito Owusu-Bio who expressed his gratitude to FBNBank for their kind gesture and also commended the Bank for demonstrating leadership in supporting government’s e ort in the Green Ghana campaign. He also urged Ghanaians past decade and this has called for serious action on the part of all to arrest the deforestation. According to Global Forest Watch in their report, Ghana Deforestation Rates & Statistics, “In 2010, Ghana had 7.00Mha of natural forest, extending over 30 percent of its land area. In 2021, it lost 101kha of natural forest, equivalent to 62.9Mt of CO 2 emissions”. Ghana has some estimated 6.6 million hectares of forest, made up of 1.2 million hectares of closed forest and 5.4 million hectares of open forest. These have, however, come under threat, largely, from activities such as illegal mining

FBNBank has in its 27 years of operating in Ghana remained focused on putting its nities rst. This, it has sought to do throughlence of what the Bank contributes to the relationship with its stakeholders as a whole, particularly customers.

FBNBank Ghana is a member of the First Bank of Nigeria Limited Group which is renowned for its great customer service and general stakeholder engagement garnered over its 128 years of operation. FBNBank has 23 branches and three service centres across the country with almost 500 sta . FBNBank o ers universal banking services to individuals and businesses in Ghana.