Ghana Re donates GH¢200,000 to health and education sectors.            

Ghana Reinsurance Company PLC. has made donations totalling GH¢200,000 to three institutions as its corporate social responsibility interventions for 2025, being this year’s edition of the state-owned company’s long-standing annual tradition. The donations were made earlier this week at the roof top of Ghana Re’s head office in Accra,

The donations, in line with the company’s corporate tradition, were made to the health and education sectors, with each sector getting GH¢100,000.

Giving the rationale behind Ghana Re’s focus on those two sectors, the company’s Managing Director, Seth Kobla Aklatsi, explained: “The insurance industry is fundamentally sustained by businesses and individuals with the capacity to utilise our services. This capacity is largely built on key resources, foremost among them being a healthy human capital. Accordingly, it is essential that as a player in the industry, we support institutions who provide quality healthcare and education toward the development of much-needed human capital.”

Two health sector organisations shared the GH¢100,000 allocated to that sector, each getting GH¢50,000.

Lifeline for Childhood Cancer Ghana (LCCG), which has been regularly supported by Ghana Re over the years, is a patient organisation and fundraising foundation partner for the Pediatric Oncology Treatment Unit of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital as well as the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. Ghana Re’s latest donation is to assist with the building of a new 40-bed Paediatric Oncology Centre at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital to cater for more children because the current ward at the hospital can only take 25 children at a time; and there are about 500 cases every year, with many children having to be turned away.

The other health sector beneficiary of Ghana Re’s largesse is the Ghana Heart Foundation, (GHF), another organisation which the reinsurer has supported in the past. GHF is a charitable entity that supports the National Cardiothoracic Centre at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital by facilitating public donations for heart-related research, patient care and creating a supportive environment for heart health in Ghana. The GHF has supported every patient undergoing health surgery to the tune of between 50 and 100 percent of the surgeries costs through the donations it receives and so the latest Ghana Re donation will assist patients in accessing heart surgery at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.

The other GH¢100,000 given by Ghana Re has gone to the University of Cape Coast School of Business, which has been running programmes for the past 50 years. Currently, the school runs 37 programmes across the undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels with the potential to add 24 more within the next four years.  Student enrolment has already increased to over 6,000, with further increases in the offing; and this has placed tremendous pressure on the school’s existing infrastructure, with students being forced to use corridors for group and personal studies, which is not conducive. Ghana Re’s donation is, therefore, to assist with the construction of six summer huts with a snacks shop to ease congestion in the learning spaces and, thus, facilitate effective learning and administration.

“A healthy population is the backbone of productivity, innovation and economic growth,” Seth Aklatsi asserted during the donation ceremony. “Similarly, education empowers individuals with knowledge, skills and confidence, enabling them to contribute meaningfully to society. By supporting both sectors, we are investing not only in institutions, but in people and in the future because healthcare and education remain two of the most crucial pillars of national development.”

Ghana Re, owned by the Government of Ghana, is the largest reinsurance company domiciled in the country.

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