The Chief Executive Officer of Caveman Watches Anthony Dzamefe has urged businesses to prioritize Corporate Social Responsibility to ensure community development.
According to him, companies should not only take from these communities but also, give back in a positive way to propel development.
Speaking at the handing-over ceremony of his over GHC 20,000 borehole investment for the people of Kuroboi in the Upper East region, he challenged all companies to also be encouraged to help to ensure development in the various communities.
He said, “if every company can help in providing certain basic essential amenities to the communities they operate in, Ghana as a nation will develop at a faster rate than we are doing currently.”
Mr Dzamefe and his Caveman Foundation as part of their CSR executed the gesture.
Speaking to Starrfm.com.gh, he said the initiative was motivated after a TV report in January of 2020, about the Kuroboi community in the Upper West Region of Ghana where the community with a population of over a thousand people had only one functioning borehole which was constructed in 1964 and during the dry seasons barely provides them with water.
He said, “they often had to walk long distances into the neighbouring communities to access water. One can imagine the stress the people of Kuruboi have to go through daily just to get water to perform basic chores such as cooking and washing at home. I was touched by the reportage thus my support”
Mr Anthony rather than just verbally sympathizing with the community decided to take action to help alleviate the water problem facing the people of Kuroboi. In consultation with the chiefs and people, the Caveman Foundation’s Africa Water Project – A project funded by Caveman Watches where they dedicate revenue made from some particular watch models to providing potable water for the deprived communities in Ghana and other African countries.
The chiefs and people were very grateful and showed their joy by performing a traditional dance where they danced their water worries away.
Mr Anthony Dzamefe was also enskinned by the chiefs and elders as a development chief with the skin name Fente Dua. He in return made it known that this water project was not a one-off thing but rather the beginning of many more social interventions from Caveman Watches.
Caveman is a globally endorsed watch manufacturing company in Ghana that has caught the attention of the New York Times and others.
They have chalked many successes over the years with their beautiful and innovative timepieces such as the Blue Volta which pays homage to the Volta Lake and their flagship product the Caveman Turbo Premium which has adorned the wrists of the likes of the President of Ghana H.E Nana Akuffo Addo, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Akon, and Don Jazzy etc
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM
