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The Dream Believers Foundation for the 3rd time made possible that its mission of creating a community spirit of selfless giving came to life in Agric, Jericho in the Ashaiman community

The event, Santa on the Streets (SOTS) is an exclusive annual charity event which serves as a global voice of community selfless giving. The SOTS is an event organized by the Dream Believers Foundation which started in 2017.

This year's SOTS dedicated 26th December during the Xmas season to give to society by clothing the giving team in Santa Claus (Father Christmas) outfits and sharing items like food, drinks, chocolates manufactured products and medical supplies (nose masks) among kids and families in celebration of the selected locality.

Santa on the Streets (SOTS) makes third ceremonial appearance in Ashaiman

The event which is particularly noted for selfless community giving also paramountly uses the gathering as an avenue to educate the general public on some pressing concerns in society as well as scouting talents for the "Make It&nbsp;Count" a youth empowerment project of the Dream Believers Foundation.

This year's topic was an elaborate discussion with the kids and adults in the vicinity about Covid - 19. The topic gave room for all participants to share ideas on causes, effect and prevention of the virus. The foundation contributing its quota towards fighting the virus shared nose masks to people in the locality.

The event began at 13:00pm and ended around 4:30 pm.

The event saw an educated, happy, vibrant and thrilling audience of over 150 people who could not get enough of activities like dancing competition, musical chairs and photoshoot sessions with the giving team all dressed up in Santa outfits.

For the 3rd time, SANTA ON THE STREETS (SOTS) ceremonially showered love on the streets in the vicinity of Jericho in Ashaiman this time around.

This is in fulfilment of its core vision and mission, which is serving as a rest-on shoulder for the marginalized and underprivileged members of the society (often Orphans and Widows).

The CEO of the foundation, Christiana Asiedua-Asiedu, together with her team trained widows, single mothers and a few youth from Kukurantumi, Tafo and Osiem, all in the Koforidua Municipality.

The predominantly unskilled women were taken through Yogurt and beads making, commercial Liquid soap production, as well as entrepreneurship talk from an experienced life coach.

Madam Christiana Asiedua-Asiedu thanked the organisers and the people of the region for their kind gesture and also for allowing them to host such programme to its success.

“We say may God bless and replenish you all for your benevolence, regardless the abnormal economic times the world finds itself in,” she said.

A team of dedicated volunteers christened Chrissy Foundation has extended a hand of entrepreneurial training support to about sixty-five women in the Eastern region.

E/R: Chrissy Foundation holds entrepreneurship training for widows

PECB, which is a respected certification body for persons, management systems, and products on a wide range of international standards, said in its correspondence to the erstwhile management of Heritage Bank that: “It is with great pleasure that we congratulate your company on attaining the PECB Management System Certificate signifying that your organisation has been assessed and found to be in accordance with the management system requirements in ISO/IEC 27001:2013”.

“The scope of HBL Information Security Management System (ISMS) includes all employees, business and support activities carried in HBL’s Head Office and Datacenter Facility based at Plot No 6, Airport City, NCA Tower, First Floor and Part of the Ground Floor, Accra, Ghana, in accordance with Statement of Applicability (SoA), Ver. 1 “

Heritage Bank gets PECB certification of recognition

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“Your certificate number is: C578-ISMS173-01-19, and is valid until 2022-01-16”, the correspondence signed by CEO Eric Lachapelle; and President &amp; COO Faton Aliu, said.

PECB noted that: “In order to maintain the certificate, your organisation will be subjected to two surveillance audits. The first surveillance audit will take place no longer than 12 months from the initial certification audit. Additionally, the second surveillance audit will take place in no longer than 12 months from the first surveillance audit”.

The BoG revoked HBL’s licence on Friday, 4 January 2019 on the basis that the majority shareholder, Mr Seidu Agongo, among other things, used proceeds realised from alleged fraudulent contracts he executed for the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), for which he and former COCOBOD CEO, Dr Stephen Opuni are being tried, to set up the bank.

Announcing the withdrawal of the licence, the Governor of the central bank, Dr Ernest Addison told journalists – when asked if he did not deem the action as premature, since the COCOBOD case was still in court – that: “The issue of Heritage Bank, I wanted to get into the law with you, I don’t know if I should, but we don’t need the court’s decision to take the decisions that we have taken. We have to be sure of the sources of capital to license a bank; if we have any doubt, if we feel that it’s suspicious, just on the basis of that we find that that is not acceptable as capital. We don’t need the court to decide for us whether anybody is ‘fit and proper’, just being involved in a case that involves a criminal procedure makes you not fit and proper”.

However, Mr Agongo responded with a press statement in which he said that the “not fit and proper” tag stamped on him by the central bank was “capricious, arrogant, malicious and in bad faith”.

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According to Mr Agongo, “In purportedly making the determination, the central bank obviously had little regard for the time-honoured principle that a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction”, adding that: “The fact that I have a case pending before the High Court is a matter of public knowledge but my guilt or innocence is yet to be determined by the Honourable Court”.

“The determination that I am not a fit and proper person to be a significant shareholder of HBL because the central bank suspects the funds are derived from illicit or suspicious contracts with Cocobod is not only calculated to pre-judge the outcome of the criminal proceedings but also violative of the principle of presumption of innocence to which every individual is entitled. Since when has suspicion become a substitute for credible evidence?” Mr Agongo asked.

World-renowned Canada-based certification body, PECB, located in Montréal, has issued a management system certificate to Heritage Bank Limited (HBL) of Ghana, despite the revocation of its licence recently by the Bank of Ghana.

Heritage Bank gets PECB certification despite licence revocation

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Santa on the Streets (SOTS) makes third ceremonial appearance in Ashaiman

E/R: Chrissy Foundation holds entrepreneurship training for widows

Heritage Bank gets PECB certification despite licence revocation