Nigeria’s oldest and leading commercial bank has said it would soon unveil e-learning solutions in collaboration with some leading innovative technology firms to keep students busy throughout the long and emergency schools shut down in order to address the boredom concern of many parents on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic
Describing education as one of First Bank’s core Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), pillars, the Managing Director Dr Adesola Adeduntan in a personally signed message to all the bank’s customers said the bank will help keep the children busy and away from boredom
“FirstBank is partnering with the Government; United Nations; innovative technology firms to provide e-learning solution with the Government approved curriculum for students. FirstBank will finance the roll out of e-learning solution accredited by all necessary authorities both online and offline with the offline version eliminating the challenge posed by data affordability. As an immediate first intervention, we have contributed towards the drive to enable 1 Million Children move to e-learning immediately,” he said.
We call on well-meaning organisations and individuals to join us and collectively rise to address the challenges this current pandemic presents to our children and youth whose needs must not be lost in this pandemic and ask that if you wish to contribute please visit our crowd funding platform www.firstbanknigeria.com where you will see how you can be a part of this and select what intervention you wish to support.
Unprecedented times require unprecedented measures and when we come together to solve for problems and challenges we collectively face we achieve great feats.
