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Coca Cola to support 500,000-dollar water programme for
Ghana
Accra, April 29, GNA – Coca Cola Company,
the global beverage giant, on Tuesday announced a
500,000-dollar support package under its Community
Watersheds Partnership Programme to provide communities in
the Tano Basin with access to potable water.
Mr Neville Isdell, Chairman of the Board of Directors and
Chief Executive Officer, made this known when he paid a
courtesy call on President John Agyekum Kufuor at the
Castle, Osu.
He said it was their contribution towards helping to reduce
the incidence of water borne diseases in that part of the
country.
The Coca Cola Chairman praised President Kufuor for Ghana’s
business-friendly environment and pledged the Company’s
determination to continue to increase the level its
investment.
“We will continue to invest in a country that is very much
on the move.”
Mr Isdell, who last visited Ghana in 1993, said he was
amazed at the progress Ghana had made adding that, Coca Cola
was proud to be part of “this growth”.
President Kufuor said what the nation wanted was to see
Ghanaians become part owners of the Company so as to share
in its growth.
To make this happen, he suggested to Coca Cola to consider
floating shares on the Ghana Stock.
The water support programme,
which would cover a three-year period, would be undertaken
by the Company in conjunction with the United States Agency
for International Development (USAID)
He described as commendable the potable water programme for
the Tano Basin and said the Company, by this was showing
human concern for the community.
GNA
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