The Caritas lottery platform has taken bold steps to provide strategic funding for the National Lottery Authority’s good causes projects which seek to provide assistance to communities in areas of education, health, youth, and other sectors.
The National Lottery Authority (NLA) in November 2021 re-launched its Caritas Lottery Platform that allows corporate organizations, businesses and individuals to run consumer promotions and related activities through lottery and raffle draws.
All revenue generated from the platform would be used for social responsibility projects through the Good Causes Foundation.
A press release by the public relations department of the National Lottery Authority touted the good initiative and steps taken by the Caritas platform to support the Good course’s foundation with necessary financial support.
“After the appointment of Mr. Samuel Awuku as Director-General NLA in August 2021, one of his first initiatives was to launch the NLA Good Causes Foundation.
The Foundation seeks to institutionalize the corporate social investment arm of the Authority and to find innovative ways of giving back to society in an organized manner.
To do this the Authority had to find sustainable sources of funding for the foundation to get the foundation running. One of the sources which were identified was the then defunct Caritas Lottery Platform. A stakeholder engagement was held with corporate Ghana to discuss the issues they had with the previous administration of the platform which was resolved before the re-launch.
The Guest of Honor for the event Hon. Mrs. Akosua Frema Osei Opare Chief of Staff Office of the President has these to say “ The relaunch of the Caritas Lottery Platform will help boost the confidence in citizens who partake in raffles while raising revenue to support to support the physically and mentally afflicted, the needed, aged, destitute children and other good causes”.
She went on to say “revenue generated from the Caritas Lottery Platform will be invested in visible good causes in the society”
Six (6) months after the relaunch of the platform some notable companies have signed onto the platform and have either completed their promo or are running them currently some of the companies are;
ECOBANK
GB FOODS
MELCOM
BOLT
ENGBOXX
It is refreshing to note that proceeds from these collaborations have been used to prosecute a lot of the NLA Good Causes Projects we see around. Some notable projects that have been executed under the NLA Good Causes Foundation are:
Donation to families of affected families in the three (3) coastal districts of Anloga, Keta, and Ketu during the tidal waves disaster
Donation of food items and other consumables to the Weija Leprosarium
Donation of items to the Ankaful Leprosarium
Renovation of the Children’s ward of the Koforidua regional hospital
Donation to the aged and widows in the Hohoe Municipality
Collaborated with the Atta Mills institute to build a cassava and corn mill and also renovated a basic school for the Gontie Community.
Donation to support the construction of the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit of the University Of Ghana Hospital.
Cash Donation to the Appiatse Support Fund.
Cash Donation to Hassacas ladies football club.
Renovation of Mamfe Presby Basic School
Medical Bills support a lot of individuals
Educational support for underprivileged kids
All of these projects and even more have seen the light of day under six months kind courtesy Caritas Lottery platform, corporate Ghana is encouraged to sign on the platform and use it for their promotional activities as proceeds from these collaborations are used for good causes.”
Story by:Kwaku Stephen
