Fidelity Bank Tackles Poverty, Launches Food Bank Initiative Nationwide

<h4>Fidelity Bank Tackles Poverty<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong>OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;strong> reports that as part of its initiatives to reduce poverty and alleviate hunger in the society&comma; leading financial institution&comma; Fidelity Bank Plc&comma; recently launched a Corporate Social Responsibility &lpar;CSR&rpar; scheme tagged the Fidelity Food Bank&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Through the initiative&comma; the bank would partner with carefully selected charity organizations across Nigeria to provide food items to members of the society monthly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At an event held to officially launch the project at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church&comma; Victoria Island&comma; Lagos&comma; MD&sol;CEO&comma; Fidelity Bank Plc&comma; Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;According to the Global Hunger Index&comma; an estimated 2&period;4 billion people&comma; which represents more than 30 per cent of the world&&num;8217&semi;s population&comma; faced severe food insecurity in 2022&period; In Nigeria&comma; data published by the National Bureau of Statistics in 2022&comma; stated that over 133 million Nigerians are multidimensionally poor and the major issue is hunger&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We recognize that one of the ways we can continue to touch lives and give back to the communities we serve is by the introduction of The Fidelity Food Bank initiative&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The launch ceremony had in attendance clergy from the church&comma; led by the Parish Priest&comma; Reverend Father Julius Olaitan&comma; as well as Executives and staff of Fidelity Bank Plc and climaxed with the official handover of the food packs to the church who is one of the bank&&num;8217&semi;s partners in the food bank initiative&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It is often said that if you want to go fast&comma; go alone&comma; but if you want to go far&comma; go with people&period; This is the philosophy behind our partnership with Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church and other Fidelity Food Bank Partners across the country&period; Our Partners will assist in the distribution of food items to people across their various locations&&num;8221&semi;&comma; explained Onyeali-Ikpe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Fidelity Food Bank project comes under the bank&&num;8217&semi;s Health and Social Welfare CSR pillar&period; Other pillars in the CSR strategy are Education&comma; Environment and Youth Empowerment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fidelity Bank is a full-fledged customer commercial bank operating in Nigeria with over 7&period;5 million customers serviced across its 250 business offices and digital banking channels&period; The bank was recognized as the Best Payment Solution Provider Nigeria 2023 and Best SME Bank Nigeria 2022 by the Global Banking and Finance Awards&period; The bank has also won awards for the &&num;8220&semi;Fastest Growing Bank&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;MSME &amp&semi; Entrepreneurship Financing Bank of the Year&&num;8221&semi; at the 2021 BusinessDay Banks and Other Financial Institutions &lpar;BAFI&rpar; Awards<&sol;p>&NewLine;