MTN Ghana has welcomed babies born on Christmas Day with hampers in selected health facilities across the 16 regions of Ghana.
Since 2011 when the telecommunication giants started the hamper donation as part of its corporate social responsibility, it has presented 3,500 hampers to lucky mothers who deliver on Christmas day.
The hampers containing assorted baby care products symbolises a special way of welcoming the babies into the world on a day Christ was born.
This year’s hamper donation exercise is taking place simultaneously in 30 health facilities nationwide, 17 of which are in the northern sector of the country.
At the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, 22 mothers were presented with the hampers by officials of MTN Ghana.
Mrs. Charity Darko, Corporate Affairs Manager, MTN Northern Business District, who led the team, said the annual gesture affirmed the company’s commitment to showing love and care to society.
“We are in a festive season where everyone is in a happy mood so we also use the opportunity to show love to the people around us especially to mothers who have just delivered,” she noted.
She said the expectation was that the donation would cushion the mothers in terms of financial burden that comes with childbirth.
Madam Gifty Serwaah Adu, Nurse Manager, Mother and Baby Unit, KATH, said the donation came in handy for some of the mothers who reported to the facility with virtually nothing, and applauded MTN Ghana for the intervention.
She said the Unit had been seeing such cases quite often and called on other benevolent organsations and individuals to emulate the gesture of MTN.
Some of the mothers who spoke to the media expressed their heartfelt gratitude to MTN for the beautiful presents.
GNA
