Svanikier aids Winneba Youth Choir

By Edmund Mingle

Mr. Thomas Svanikier, Executive Chairman of Svani Group, has donated GH¢ 50,000 in aid of an endowment fund for the Winneba Youth Choir (WYC), in line with his increasing support towards the education of young people.

Mr. Svanikier (left) presenting the keys to the car to Paa John Yamoah

The amount serves as seed money for the fund, which aims at supporting the education and welfare needs of the members of the choir and needy children.

In addition to the financial support, the Svani Group has donated a saloon car to the Choir Master to help him to effectively manage the music group made up of talented youngsters.

The support package, announced by Mr. Svanikier at the Choir’s end-of-year “Peace on Earth” choral concert in Accra last Sunday, crowned a year-long charity activity by the company in commemoration of its silver jubilee.

Earlier last year, the Svani Group, a leading automobile and logistics services firm, donated a 35-seater bus to the choir to addressing transportation challenge facing the nation’s leading youth choir.

The donations are to express the company’s commitment to its corporate social responsibility in the areas of education, youth development and employment creation.

Mr. Svanikier, together with his wife, Johanna, who is Ghana’s Ambassador to France and Portugal, addressing the concert, commended the management of the WYC for effectively helping to nurture the talents of the youth.

Describing the choir as “ambassadors of joy,” he thanked God for using it to spread the gospel through music

Mr. Godfred Adusei Derkyi, chairman of the Winneba Youth Choir, who launched the endowment fund, thanked the Svani Group, with subsidiaries in the energy, oil and gas and real estate sectors, for the immense assistance towards the choir.

He prayed for God’s blessings for the company, and gave assurance of the choir’s commitment to the partnership with the company.

Paa John Arthur Yamoah, the Choir Master, for his part, expressed gratitude to the company, and gave the assurance that the vehicle would be effectively utilized to advance the performance of the choir.

The concert, which was held under the auspices of Mr. and Mrs. Svanikier, was attended by high profile personalities including Mrs. Matilda Amissah-Arthur, Wife of the Vice-President former Chief of Staff, Mr. John Henry Martey-Newman, and former Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye.