About 300 Management and staff of Opportunity International Savings and Loans (OISL) from its branches on Saturday marking it’s annual Staff Welfare Day, embarked on a 5 kilometer health walk from Ayi Mensah to Peduase where they were taken through aerobics to exercise the body.
Led by the Board Chairman Mr. Katey Assem and other top executives OISL later spent the rest of the day with students and staff of Akropong School for the Blind in line with their corporate social responsibility, focusing on the intensity of their activities on Persons with Disability over the past 6 years.
As part of the celebration of the Staff Welfare Day, Opportunity International dinned and interacted with the students, donated food items, paid for the cost of repairs for over 50 braille typewriters for effective and inaugurated a urinal built for the school to enhance sanitation as part of its corporate social responsibility.
Board Chairman of OISL, Mr. Assem emphasized that the aim is to encourage staff of Opportunity International to regularly exercise for a healthy living, to increase awareness and understanding of disability issues and offer support as they have done annually in the past years.
The head, Mr Atsu Homadzi on receiving the donation on behalf of the school expressed appreciation to OISL for the continued show of love and concern for the welfare of the students over the years.
He reiterated that ‘disability is not inability’ as boldly inscribed on the wall of the assembly hall.
Rather, PWDs require empathy but not sympathy such that they should not be pitied but be provided with opportunities to enable them to overcome their disabilities and become responsible citizens.
Mr Homadzi prayed to other benevolent organizations for support emulating OISL.
Similarly, the northern sector branches of the institution will have its annual welfare health walk on the 8th of June, 2019 starting and ending at the Baba Yara sports Stadium through some principal streets in Kumasi.
Opportunity International Savings and Loans is the only financial institution that has a dedicated loan product specifically tailored for people with disability.
To date, over 900 PWDs.
have benefited from the company’s concessional loan dubbed ‘empowerment loan’ across the country.
Opportunity International has been in collaboration with the Ghana Federation for Disability Organizations over the past six years supporting them in diverse ways to enable them enjoy meaningful lives.
This is a core pillar in the mission of Opportunity International Savings and Loans.
