A promise made at the bank’s 15th anniversary in 2022 ends at a basic school in the Eastern Region, with a new solar commitment for hospitals taking its place.
Fidelity Bank Ghana has finished the last of 15 basic school projects it promised four years ago, handing over new and renovated facilities at Ogome Anglican Basic School in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region.
The work was carried out with Pencils of Promise, a non-profit that builds classrooms in rural communities, under what the bank calls its Orange Impact Initiative. The pledge was made in 2022 when Fidelity marked 15 years in business.
What the school received
According to reporting by Ghanaian Times, the package at Ogome includes a new two-unit kindergarten block with an office and store, plus a refurbished six-unit primary block, also with an office and store.
The school also gained a library and computer centre, eight water closet units, four urinal units and a 250-litre polytank for water storage. Sanitation and water access are among the most common gaps in rural basic schools, and the bank said poor access to both was one of the problems the programme set out to address.
The numbers behind the programme
Before Ogome, the 14 completed schools had reached 5,577 pupils and teachers, including 2,452 girls.
Simon Adu-Gyamfi, Chief Support Officer at Fidelity Bank Ghana, used the ceremony to frame the handover as the end of a five-year cycle. "We began this at fifteen years old. We finish it at twenty," he said.
The bank is currently marking its 20th anniversary under the theme "Twenty Years of Audacious Steps".
Pencils of Promise Country Director Freeman Gobah said the organisation has built 210 classroom blocks across three regions since starting work in Ghana in 2012, reaching more than 50,000 learners. He said partnerships with companies like Fidelity are what keep such projects going.
Next: solar power for 20 hospitals
The bank used the same event to announce its next community pledge. As part of the 20th anniversary, Fidelity says it will install solar energy systems at 20 community hospitals across the country to give them more reliable electricity for essential services.
No timeline, cost or list of beneficiary hospitals was given at the inauguration.
Why it matters
For Ghanaians abroad who send money home or support community projects, corporate school-building programmes like this one are a visible part of how infrastructure gaps in districts such as Yilo Krobo get filled when public funding falls short.
Maintenance is usually the weak point. Yilo Krobo Municipal Chief Executive Francis Addo Akumatey urged teachers and pupils at the handover to look after the new buildings so the school benefits from them for years to come.
