AIRTEL Ghana is reinforcing its make your change campaign in the lives of people, communities and the entire nation by rewarding selflessness and philanthropy in Kalendom in Tamale in the Northern Region of Ghana.
The award winning Airtel Touching lives initiative has recognized the efforts of Sheik Ibrahim Basha Iddris who has committed himself to the training and care for the less privileged in his society.
Sheik Iddris apart from providing vocational training for children, has been instilling into the youth of his area values, morals and clothes them too.
At 73, Sheik is still very active in community self help projects and says he has no intention of letting go anytime soon.
Determined to change the minds of his people about circular education, Sheik Iddris has succeeded in imparting skills in vocation to students of his Nuriya Islamic Institute to the benefit of many families.
” Now am able to make office tables, furniture, cupboards, roof houses and a lot more, through which I have been able to help my family and people around me, even in the mosque,” explained Abdul Mumin Mohammed, a beneficiary of Sheik Iddris’ philanthropy.
The touching lives programme flashed back into the story of Kwabena Danso’s Yonso Bamboo Bicycle Project of the previous season.
Mr Danso disclosed how beneficial Airtel’s support had been, making room for a major expansion of his project.
” Most of the students we supported from the rural areas have been able to move on into tertiary institutions; on the bamboo bicycle front we have re-branded, have our own office, have now employed more people and are currently distributing bicycles in four countries including Germany, Netherlands and Australia,” Mr Danso disclosed in an interview.
Airtel touching lives is an annual television programme which helps identify people who have excelled in life in spite of disability as well as people who have helped to bring about changes in communities that they live in.
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