Inde Bank supports Visual impaired families in Salima with farm inputs
Inde Bank on Friday afternoon brought joy among
visual impaired farmers of Chinguluwe Settlement Scheme in Salima when the bank
supported them with fertilizer and maize seeds.
The donation is worth MK600 thousand, to benefit
up to 80 families blind families of the Scheme.
George Namandwa the Inde Bank Deputy Chief
Executive Officer when presenting the donation in Salima at Chinguluwe, said
the bank was overwhelmed with hard working spirit shown by these farmers and that
the donation is meant to uplift their efforts so that this farming season they should
realize more benefits farming.
“Inde Bank selected this area because it is concerned
with the blind. We have a focus in our Corporate and Social Responsibility
policy to target the underprivileged especially those to do with the blind.” He
said
“Part of our mission statement we say that we
want to be relevant to the communities in which we serve, relevance does not
only imply making profits but uplifting the lives of people in which we serve.
We believe that once we uplift those lives we build relationships that will
then help us grow.” Said Namandwa
He said the bank would in future support these
farmers depending on the availability of resources.
Boniface Calvin, a Chairperson for Malawi Union
of Blind in Salima district shares his excitement towards this donation
“Am gratefully happy with the gift from Inde
Bank because we are going to achieve what the blind people were lacking. For
example we have here fertilizer and maize seeds this means we have a start.”
He noted that the support from Inde bank is a
boost to the families of visual impaired farmers in the district who are
currently not benefiting much from the government programme ‘Fertiliser Subsidy
Programme (FISP)’ due to the limited number of beneficiaries per village since number
of families including the blind are forced to share the contents that are meant
for a single family coupon.
“Inde Bank has added more soup to the blind” he
said adding “and as we have received the Inde Bank fertilizer it means that,
plus the portion we are going to get from fertilizer subsidy the improvement of
production will be very high next year”
