The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Ghana has made a donation to support Citi FM/Citi TV’s Help a Christmas Child initiative.
The annual initiative will see staff of Citi TV/Citi FM, December 26, celebrate Boxing Day with patients at the St. Joseph’s Orthopaedic Hospital and the Eastern Regional Hospital.
The Coca-Cola Bottling company donated 40 packs of coca-cola for the Boxing Day initiative.
Ernest Yeboah Obeng of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Communications unit at the Coca-Cola Bottling Company, made the presentation on behalf of the company.
About Help A Christmas Child
‘Help A Christmas Child’ initiative put smiles on the faces of children in selected places every year on Boxing Day.
Things donated to the kids are often cash and other items from listeners and viewers of Citi FM and Citi TV respectively and corporate institutions.
The station in the past has extended the gesture to Adamrobe, Manchie and Korleman as well as Sota and Abonya in 2017, 2016 and 2015 respectively.
Last year, Citi FM/Citi TV’s ‘Help A Christmas Child‘ outreach made a return to the Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital after its last visit in 2019.
The station’s management felt there was unfinished business following the last two years disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.
The children were treated to candy, drinks and Christmas gifts as part of the outreach.
The Citi Foundation also used the opportunity to present a cheque of GH¢40,000 for the payment of medical bills of some needy patients at the Burns Centre of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
The Foundation also donated digital blood pressure monitors and pulse oximeters to the centre.