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Michael Oberteye Blog of Wednesday, 7 May 2025
Source: Oberteye Michael
Accra, 7th May 2025 – Women astatine the Chosen Rehabilitation Centre person completed a two-month bead-making training, funded by Vivo Energy Ghana successful concern with Engage Africa done its Energising Hope Programme.
On February 14th, Vivo Energy Ghana employees visited the Chosen Rehabilitation Centre to dispersed emotion and kindness. The squad donated indispensable supplies and bead-making materials, laying the instauration for a skills improvement grooming to empower the women.
The period of April marked the palmy completion of the skills grooming programme, with Vivo Energy Ghana erstwhile again contiguous astatine the close-out ceremonial to observe trainees’ achievements and animate a lasting consciousness of pridefulness and accomplishment.
The hands-on bead trade grooming sessions, facilitated by skilled trainers from Engage Africa, equipped trainees with method skills, creativity, discipline, and self-reliance, helping trainees to physique a instauration for autarkic surviving and income procreation upon reintegration into society.
Speaking astatine the event, the Managing Director of Vivo Energy Ghana, Christian Li commended the women’s efforts during the training. He stated: “We are arrogant to basal with you each arsenic you implicit your travel of learning and growth. At Vivo Energy Ghana, we judge existent empowerment comes from equipping radical with the tools and opportunities to unlock their potential.”
“This grooming is not lone astir crafts but besides astir creating a pathway to dignity, confidence, and a caller start. Today’s accumulation is simply a solemnisation of resilience, creativity, and renewed purpose." helium added.
The grooming programme culminated successful a colourful accumulation astatine the rehabilitation centre wherever trainees proudly showcased a wide array of handcrafted beadwork including jewellery to decorative pieces. The accumulation marked the palmy completion of the programme and highlighted their readiness to modulation with newfound skills.
The Corporate Communications Manager of Vivo Energy Ghana, Shirley Tony Kum expressed optimism successful the skills acquired by the trainees: "At Vivo Energy Ghana, existent vigor lies successful the powerfulness to animate anticipation and alteration lives. Through the Energising Hope initiative, we person seen resilience, creativity, and transformation. It is our anticipation that the skills acquired done this grooming volition service arsenic a launchpad for a brighter, autarkic future." she noted.
For galore trainees, this was their archetypal acquisition successful handcrafting, creating beauteous pieces similar necklaces, bracelets, bags and keyholders. Each bead strung with hope, patience, and the content that beingness extracurricular the walls could beryllium different.
They expressed immense appreciation to Vivo Energy Ghana for the Energising Hope initiative, which is transforming the lives of the little privileged.
The Energising Hope programme is 1 of respective initiatives nether Vivo Energy Ghana’s assemblage concern portfolio, reflecting the company’s dedication to inclusive maturation successful the communities it serves.
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Media contact:
Shirley Tony Kum
Corporate Communications Manager
Vivo Energy Ghana
+ 233 540 116 600
Notes to editors:
With a imaginativeness to go Africa’s starring and astir respected vigor concern Vivo Energy Ghana, the institution that distributes and markets Shell-branded fuels and lubricants was established successful 2013. The Shell marque has been successful Ghana since1928. Vivo Energy Ghana has a fuels retention capableness of 11,000m³ and 245 work stations, with galore offerings Shell Cards and convenience retail stores.
The Vivo Energy Group operates and markets its products successful countries crossed North, West, East, Southern Africa and successful the Ocean Islands. The extended Group has a web of implicit 3,900 work stations successful 28 markets operating nether the Engen and Shell brands and exports lubricants to a fig of different African countries. Its retail offering includes fuels, lubricants, paper services, convenience stores, restaurants, and different non-fuel services. It provides fuels, lubricants, liquefied petroleum state (LPG) and chemicals to concern customers crossed a scope of sectors including marine, aviation, mining, construction, power, transport, agriculture and manufacturing. It is continuing to make innovative vigor solutions to heighten sustainability.
The Company employs astir 6,000 radical and has entree to implicit 2.1 cardinal litres of substance retention capacity.
For much accusation astir Vivo Energy delight sojourn www.vivoenergy.com.