As South African’s celebrated Mandela Day, which falls on 18 July every year, Standard Bank Malawi joined the cause by painting Bwaila Maternity Hospital in Lilongwe.
The bank’s Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Mashanda, said the bank considers the health sector as a priority area in its corporate social responsibility programmes.
“We feel that we need to be in a position to contribute as a corporate player in Malawi. We have been donating to the health sector for a long time and we will continue to invest in the sector as it is critical to the country,” he said.
In her remarks, South Africa High Commissioner, Cassandra Mbuyane-Mokone, said doing charity work is the best way to honour the memory of Mandela.
“Mandela Day is a day we celebrate by giving a bit of our time to charity work. The United Nations in 2010 declared 18 July, which is a birth date of the late Nelson Mandera, to be an international Mandela Day where everyone is supposed to do charity work in their community for 67 minutes,” she said.
An official at Bwaila Hospital, Ethel Rambiki, thanked Standard Bank for the support.
“The wall was painted a long time ago. There was need to paint it again. We, therefore, appreciate the gesture that Standard Bank and South African High Commissioner have done,” she said.
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