FirstBank, Nigeria’s premier financial services provider begins its 2024 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CR&S) Week to minimize the environmental impact of the environment while achieving the bank’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The programme scheduled to hold between 19 to 24 August, aims to reinforce the bank’s positive outcomes of sowing seeds of kindness by empowering the lives of communities.
The CR&S Week is a dedicated week that offers opportunities for employees of the FirstBank Group (FirstBank Nigeria, FirstBank UK, FirstBank Gambia, FirstBank Sierra-Leone, FirstBank DRC, FirstBank Guinea, FirstBank Ghana, FBNBank Senegal; First Pension and First Nominees) to give their time & resources to defined causes in line with the Bank’s CR&S strategic approach.
Now in its 8th year, the Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Week is reserved for the demonstration of kindness as a fundamental philosophy of the Bank.
During this period the Bank and its employees “Start Performing Acts of Random Kindness” (SPARK) the value-based initiative in alignment with the ethos of compassion, civility, and charity. The 2023 CR&S Week, eight countries participated with over 80 charities/NGOs and 30,000 lives impacted.
The 2024 CR&S is envisioned to be an eventful week of impact, sowing the seed of kindness through the different initiatives/activities:
FirstBank planned to plant 30,000 trees across Nigeria, furthering its commitment to plant 50,000 trees by 2025 in partnership with the Nigeria Conservation Foundation (NCF).
The bank will support Jigawa and Plateau States by driving awareness, performing surgeries, and providing post-care kits for those living with Vesicovaginal Fistula (VVF).
Apart from visiting orphanage homes, IDP camps, and other charities across Nigeria, SSA markets, and the UK, demonstrating kindness and empowering those at the bottom of the pyramid, staff and management will share kind comments throughout the week, promoting a culture of compassion and civility across the bank.
