Accion MfB supports physically challenged customers
Accion Microfinance Bank has supported three physically challenged customers of the bank with two power generating sets as well as financial support.
The move was part of the bank’s corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Speaking at the bank’s annual customer forum in Lagos, the Managing Director, Accion Microfinance Bank, Taiwo Joda, said the financial institution’s social impact is focused on giving back to the society where they operate, adding that the bank is focused on empowering people.
“Our social impact is linked to the fact that we need to be able to give back to the society that we operate. Micro finance banking is actually focused on empowering the people and so you can not totally dissociate yourself from the poor and we are trying to empower the poor. You also know there cannot be effective financial inclusion without social inclusion. If you do not give back to the society and you do not drive social sustainability you cannot be talking about financial sustainability,” he noted.
He also said much of the things they have done include reaching out to schools.
Joda, added that Accion has partnered with a lot of schools. According to him, in September 2018, the bank gave out over 5,000 school bags and exercise books, notebooks to different schools across the country.
“It so exciting to children who have never seen a school bag before and we are so excited about that idea.”
The Accion MD expressed confidence in 2019, saying the bank would take the initiative a step further because of its understanding that there are lots of abilities in disability.
According to him: “Today we are celebrating three of our customers that are living with disabilities, but who are also economically active doing business and you can see the joy in them. They are not relying in family and friends to be able to feed themselves.
“We felt the least we could do is to help their business grow and that is why for two of them- one is into laundry business, and the second is into sales of drinks, we gave them generators. While for the individual with visual impairment, we felt the way we can impact him is to pay the children school fees.
“When we interviewed them, we realised that the whole school fee has not been paid and the school session has to break, so what we did was to pay the back log of the outstanding school fees. We also paid for the new session and as time progresses; we will review what we can do to further increase the lives of the people.”
Speaking on the annual customer’s forum, Joda said the event was an opportunity for customers to come together to give the bank feedback on areas of our services to them.
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