Fidelity Bank launches the Food Bank Initiative nationwide

Fidelity Bank Plc has launched a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) scheme tagged the Fidelity Food Bank.

This is part of the bank’s initiatives to reduce poverty and alleviate hunger in the society

Through the initiative, Fidelity Bank would partner with carefully selected charity organisations across Nigeria to provide food items to members of the society monthly.

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At an event held to officially launch the project at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, MD/CEO, Fidelity Bank Plc 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.”