{"id":65132,"date":"2022-09-29T17:46:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=65132"},"modified":"2022-09-29T17:46:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:46:23","slug":"unity-bank-lagos-food-bank-partner-to-donate-food-items-to-lagos-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/unity-bank-lagos-food-bank-partner-to-donate-food-items-to-lagos-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Unity Bank, Lagos Food Bank Partner To\u00a0Donate Food Items To Lagos Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a massive collaborative\u00a0 initiative to support and promote interventions targetted to addressing hunger and malnutrition in communities, Agric lender, Unity Bank Plc and Lagos Food Bank have donated food items worth millions of Naira to Ogundimu Ilaje, a riverine community in the suburb of Lagos.<\/p>\n

\"\"A statement from the Bank adds that the intervention is part of the Bank’s\u00a0strategic Corporate Social Responsibility aimed at sustaining improvement of health and social welbeing of communities where we operate, whilst identifying with the goals and objectives\u00a0of\u00a0the Lagos Food Bank Initiative, a non-profit organization committed to providing welfare programme to indegent people has helped the Bank to reach direct beneficiaries.<\/p>\n

No fewer than 150 cartons of food items, tagged: ‘Unity Box of Hope’ was\u00a0distributed\u00a0to hundreds of households in the underserved community. The gesture, according to\u00a0the Bank,\u00a0comes on the heels of the worsening economic situation in the country, especially with the soaring food inflation at 23.12 per cent as of August 2022, which has resulted in the alleviate hunger in many households.<\/p>\n

Addressing the beneficiaries at the venue of\u00a0food distribution, Mr. Hillary Oguebo, Unity Bank\u2019s Head, Corporate Resources, said the Bank, as an agric-focused financial institution, is fulfilling its core mandate in line with Bank’s drive for food security, adding that the Bank is pleased to donate the food items to the community to help ameliorate the impact of the rising cost of food on them.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cUnity Bank has a\u00a0financing business model that is principally\u00a0anchored, amongst others,\u00a0on boosting\u00a0agricultural production and it is also meaningful for those who have not benefitted from the Bank’s\u00a0Agric financing package to receive direct food intervention as it is being done today.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to a lot of factors, especially growing insecurity, food production has been impacted severely, leading to historical food inflation. That has left many households struggling and battling hunger. So, this is a thoughtful gesture that we hope to sustain to reach as many Nigerians who really deserve this form of intervention at this critical period.\u201d<\/p>

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With a score of 28.3, the Global Hunger Index ranks Nigeria 103rd\u00a0out of 116 and classifies the country\u2019s hunger level as serious. This is a result of the country\u2019s growing food insecurity, which has risen to more than 80 per cent from less than 20 per cent about three decades ago.<\/p>\n

Unity Bank has led some of the most important critical interventions in the agric sector in Nigeria in the recent past and boasts significant investment in the Agric sector over the past six years and a track record of financing smallholder farmers that spur food production through the Anchor Borrowers\u2019 Programme of the Central Bank of Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Through a Corporate Social Responsibility initiative that feeds households in underserved communities, the Bank is redefining CSR through strategic interventions that align perfectly with its business model.<\/p>\n[Picture] –\u00a0L-R: Branch Manager, Unity Bank Plc, Yaba, Opeoluwa Jedafe;Head, Events, Digital and Sponsorship, Unity Bank, Mr. Bashir Salami; Volunteer, Lagos Food Bank (LFB), Mr. Ifedayo Orimogunje;Volunteer, LFB, Atinuke Aderigbigbe; Divisional Head, Corporate Resources, Unity Bank, Mr. Hilary Ajuebon; Executive Director, LFB, Mr. Micheal Sunbola; and Regional Manager, Ikeja Region, Unity Bank, Florence Isem, at the donation of 150 food boxes to Ogundimu Ilaje Community by Unity Bank as part of its communi<\/p>\n[Picture] –\u00a0Unity Bank staff, Lagos Food Bank team and volunteers carrying the “Unity Boxes of Hope” for distribution in Ogundimu Ilaje community, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a massive collaborative\u00a0 initiative to support and promote interventions targetted to addressing hunger and malnutrition in communities, Agric lender, Unity Bank Plc and Lagos Food Bank have donated food items worth millions of Naira to Ogundimu Ilaje, a riverine community in the suburb of Lagos. 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