The Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) has spent about Ghc268 million to execute more than 398 projects across the country as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) since the inception of the company.
The company has also awarded scholarships and mentored more than 100 students from its catchment area.
The projects are under education, health, water and sanitation, sports and community development.
Mr Stephen Donkor, the Senior Manager for Community Relation and Corporate Social Responsibility, said this at a training programme in Takoradi to update the media on their operations, the oil and gas industry value, and its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects in the past 10 years.
The workshop, attended by more than 30 journalists, was on the theme: ‘Training the Media for Effective Oil and Gas Industry Reporting’.
Mr Donkor said the company, from its inception in 2014, had undertaken various CSR activities across the country, focusing on bringing some sustainable development goals into reality.
The activities were in two folds where need assessments were done in some cases for communities directly affected by the company’s operations, while others were done through request by traditional authorities, district assemblies, political and opinion leaders.
He said about 78 of the CSR projects were executed in communities directly affected by their operations in the Ellembelle and East Nzema areas.
On education, he said 139 school projects had been completed and handed over to the beneficiaries, while 86 were at various stages of completion.
Twenty-four health facilities had been completed across the country, while three were still under construction, he said, adding that hundreds of people had been registered under the National Health Insurance Scheme, especially in the company’s catchment areas.
Mr Donkor said 38 sports facilities had been constructed and handed over to beneficiary communities, with 21 others still under construction across the country.
On water and sanitation, the Senior Manager said 172 boreholes had been drilled with some mechanised.
Under community development, he said 25 projects had been executed and that 60 women in the Ellembelle and Nzema areas had been trained to establish small-and medium-scale enterprises and given start-up kits to help address unemployment in the two areas.
He said 40 men were currently being trained in corrosion controls to take jobs in the construction of a second gas processing plant.
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