Accra, Ghana, December 5, 2019//-AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine has outshone its rivals to be adjudged the Best Performer in Corporate Social Investment 2019 at the fifth edition of the Ghana Mining Industry Awards (GMIA).
AngloGold Ashanti (AGA), a leading global gold mining company operates the Obuasi and Iduapriem mines located in the Ashanti and Western regions of Ghana respectively.
Additionally, the mining company’s tailings and operations manager, Madam Shirley Oteng-Sefa won an award in the runner-up category of the Female Miner of the Year 2019 at the awards organized by the Ghana Chamber of Mines.
Commenting on the corporate social responsible award, Senior Manager In-charge of Sustainability of AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine, Emmanuel Baidoo, said: “The award is in recognition of our contribution to society with respect to a successful implementation of our Malaria Control Programme” in Obuasi municipality and other parts of the country.
“Our Malaria Control Programme has been very well known in Ghana as a flagship programme which is impacting a lot of lives in Ghana”.
He continued that; “the programme that started a very small in Obuasi with a little investment from the company because of the outcomes that we recorded caught the attention of the Global Fund”.
“So the first time the private sector initiative attracted a Global Fund for partnership for funding was through this malaria control programme”.
Mr Baidoo used the occasion to disclose the company was implementing the programme in all districts in the Upper East and Upper West regions.
“We also took it upon ourselves as a corporate social responsibility intervention to spray all prisons and the auxiliary infrastructure of the Ghana Prison Service”.
The programme according to Mr Baidoo has significantly contributed to reducing the burden of malaria, the health burden, the economic burden of malaria on the population.
“Apart from that we are also making significant contribution to providing employment to people at all levels. We are very happy that these efforts have been recognized”.
We did what we did and we doing what we doing not because we want to win an award but we doing it to impact lives. But if awards come they will motivate us to even do more”.
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