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lic enlightenment on cervical cancer and screening
and counselling of the event participants. A total of
91 women from Lagos and environs were screened
during the Smearathon.

c. Love a Child Initiative: On February 12, 2017, the
Access Women Network across the Group as part
of its ‘Love a Child’ Initiative reached out to orphan-
ages during the valentine season. Employees were
engaged to donate cash and gifts to orphans within
their community. Several branches of the Bank also
visited orphanages within their vicinity to felicitate
with inmates and provide them with gift items. A to-
tal of 158 orphanages were visited across Nigeria.

Customer Service Staff of the Year (Officers): Alfred Falode
EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERING
DIVERSITY IN THE
WORKPLACE We continue to empower our employees to contribute
positively to the development of our host communities. In
2017 the following are some of the highlights of our em-
As an equal opportunities employer, we continue to en-
courage the representation of women at all levels of the ployees volunteering activities.
workforce.

Diversity CATCH THEM
YOUNG
2017 36%
Board 2016 31% The Information Technology
Group’s Employee Volun-
teering Project was tagged
Management 2016 24% ra Community High School,
“Catch them Young”. The
23%
Top 2017 Group adopted the Gba-
Lekki, with the objective of
improving the student’s ac-
46%
Work force 2017 52% ademic performance par-
2016
ticularly in the information
technology domain. At the
inception of the intervention,
Female Male the school had a non-func-
tional, dilapidated computer
laboratory. Through the project, the school’s defunct com-
EMPOWERING WOMEN puter lab was rehabilitated and equipped with computers,
furniture, switch boards, UPS machines, projectors, printers
a. 2017 Orange Lecture: The Bank’s Access Wom- and a standard internet facility. Employees from the Bank’s
en Network in partnership with Genesis House, a IT Group also taught the students as professionals in the
Freedom Foundation initiative on November 24, IT field using standardized tools that were aligned to the
2017 organized a public event titled: Orange Lec- school’s curriculum. About 800 students and 40 teachers
ture ‘Violence against Women: “Why it Matters and benefitted from the initiative.
Why You should Care’. The event provided a robust
platform for vigorous public discourse on the issue
of violence against women and possible solutions.
b. Smearathon: The event was held on Saturday,
September 16, 2017 at the Muri Okunola Park in
Victoria Island, Lagos in conjunction with Exquisite
Magazine. It started with a work-out session led by a
leading Nigerian actress, Kate Henshaw and includ-
ed a walkathon. It also provided an avenue for pub-

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