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Access Bank Plc has
decided to refurbish block of class rooms to the pupils and staff of
Herbert Macaulay Girls Senior High School, Yaba.

The initiative is
designed to create an encouraging learning environment for students in
the school and an expression of the Bank’s resolve to facilitating
socio-economic and educational development of its immediate area of
operation.

Speaking at the
event Segun Ogbonnewo, Group Head, Central Processing Group of Access
Bank Plc, said the gesture is consistent with the bank’s Corporate
Social Responsibility strategy and is in line with the “School Adoption
Campaign” of the Access Bank Central Processing Group motivated by the
Bank’s Employee Volunteering Initiative.

According to
Mr.Ogbonnewo, “We have undertaken to improve the standard of education
at Herbert Macaulay Girls Senior High School through this extensive
infrastructural upgrade.”

He added that our
contribution to the intellectual development of students not be limited
to physical infrastructure but will be extended to personal development
through mentoring programmes, educational seminars and talk shows for
the students of the school.”

The bank says this
initiative is the first phase of the intervention programme which will
involve the adoption, refurbishment and presentation of more blocks of
classrooms by the Bank within the shortest possible period.

“This intervention at the Herbert Macaulay Girls Senior High School
is aimed at promoting girl-child education and address the issue of
gender inequality in our society.”