Fidelity Bank launches food bank initiative nationwide

Fidelity Bank Plc has launched a corporate social responsibility (CSR) scheme tagged the Fidelity Food Bank.

Through the initiative, the bank would partner with selected charity organizations across the country to provide food items to members of the society monthly.

At an event held to officially launch the project at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Victoria Island, Lagos, the MD/CEO, Fidelity Bank Plc, Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe said, “According to the Global Hunger Index, an estimated 2.4 billion people, which represents more than 30 per cent of the world’s population, faced severe food insecurity in 2022.

“In Nigeria, data published by the National Bureau of Statistics in 2022, stated that over 133 million Nigerians are multidimensionally poor and the major issue is hunger.

“We recognise 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.”

The launch had in attendance clergy from the church, led by the parish priest, Reverend Father Julius Olaitan, as well as executives and staff of Fidelity Bank Plc and climaxed with the official handover of the food packs to the church which is one of the bank’s partners in the food bank initiative.