Land Tours Ghana And Avis Rent A Car Support The Distribution Of 19,510 Face Masks

Land Tours Ghana and Avis Rent A Car are both contributing towards the distribution of 19,510 non-medical, fabric face masks to under-resourced health facilities in high-risk areas such as Nima, Madina, Ashaiman, Agloboshie, and Old Fadama.

The masks were funded in part by the USAID-supported West Africa Biodiversity and Climate Change Program (WABiCC), which has supported Global Mamas on other projects as well that improve the livelihoods of women.

The masks are currently being produced by Global Mamas and are expected to be released to selected facilities in early June.

We visited the Global Mamas facility to see how these masks are produced and will soon share the video.

Visit https://lnkd.in/es85wbk to get more details on what member companies are doing to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. AmChamMemberCOVID19Support

COVID 19: UBER Ghana’s Response

In the past few weeks, Uber has taken steps to be part of the solution in various ways:

The Uber app is currently authorized for government permitted travel and/or exempted individuals during the partial lockdown. They have implemented:

Regulatory Guidelines

Uber app is available for permitted travel only (such as grocery shopping for essential goods or medicines).

Uber has implemented a pre-request screen that requires riders to confirm that the trip is within the permitted scope.

Limitations on passengers

  • UberX  – Maximum of 1 passenger

  • UberSELECT – Maximum of 2 passengers

Riders have been advised to sit in the back seat

Sanitizer Reimbursement

It is required that drivers sanitize their vehicles after each trip with a surface sanitizer.

Uber will make a one-time reimbursement to cover the expense of buying surface sanitizers (with a minimum alcohol content of 60%).

Helping affected drivers

If diagnosed with COVID-19 or placed in individual quarantine by a public health authority, Uber will provide driver-partners with financial assistance for a period of up to 14 days. For more information visit this page.

The above mentioned are initiatives are uber’s immediate response to the pandemic’s effects, and they continue to innovate more ways to leverage our platform to support individuals and their communities during these trying times.

Old Mutual ,175 Years Of Doing Great Things Across Africa And The World

Old Mutual Ghana is a Life Insurance and Pension Trust Company that provides life assurance and great pension services to customers in Ghana.

The Group was established in Cape Town in 1845 as South Africa’s first mutual life insurance company, offering financial security in uncertain times.

Their purpose is to help customers thrive by enabling them to achieve their lifetime financial goals while investing their funds in ways that will create a positive future for them, their families, their communities and broader society.

In this way, Old Mutual significantly contribute to improving the lives of customers and their communities while ensuring a sustainable future for the business.

Old Mutual now employ more than 30 000 people and operate in 14 countries across two regions:

Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, and eSwatini)

Asia (China)

Old Mutual has been operating in Ghana since 2013, having acquired a majority stake in Provident Life Assurance. The company operates as Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (Ghana) Limited and Old Mutual Pensions Trust Ltd.

Their purpose is to help customers thrive by enabling them to achieve their lifetime financial goals while investing their funds in ways that will create a positive future for them, their families, their communities and broader society.

This they do with an excellently assembled leadership team who are poised to take the business to the lofty heights that Old mutual is noted for.

For the last 175 years, they have delivered value to people, their families, businesses, communities and the countries in which they operate,

These are a few things Old Mutual has done for their customers and stakeholders:

  • built their dreams and fund their ambitions with them (savings, investments)
  • secured their futures (retirement, pension funds)
  •  protected them from the inevitabilities of life and built their legacies (risk, short term insurance)
  •  taught their children (education/investments plans, responsible business education initiatives)
  • supported their passions (sponsorship initiatives)
  • uplifted their communities (corporate social investment)
  • and preserved our environment (water plant, responsible investment)

We have delivered great outcomes for our customers and the public and we will indeed celebrate our heritage with them.

After operating for such a long time, you can be rest assured that all that experience will be passed on to the Ghanaian market.

We’ve seen it all. And, if we’ve learnt anything in this time it’s this:

THE IMPORTANT THINGS TO PEOPLE (AND TO OLD MUTUAL) HAVEN’T CHANGED. ‘WHY’ WE DO THINGS IS CONSTANT. IT’S THE HOW THAT CHANGES AS THE WORLD DOES.

You can trust us to champion our customers and be their most trusted lifetime partner, passionate about helping them achieve their financial goals.

Appolonia City Shares Its Business Portfolio With AmCham Guests

Appolonia City (Rendeavour) shared its business with guests at the AmCham Development Financing Forum. The presentation was part of the chamber’s new initiative to allow members to share their business and services with participants at AmCham events.

Ayesha Abdulrahaman, Senior Real Estate Advisor (Commercial), took participants through Rendeavour’s Ghana business and shared details on their 2,325-acre master-planned seamless live-work-play satellite city complete with residential, retail, commercial, educational, healthcare and recreational facilities city in Accra. Learn more.

The Capital Group Limited | AmCham Member of the Month

The Capital Group Limited (TCGL) is a Management Consulting firm established under the Companies Act of Ghana, 1963 (Act 179) on 22nd May 1996 and commencement of business on the 24th May 1996 to provide management consulting services in Human Resource, Training and Organizational Development, Facilities Management, Financial Management, Financial Advisory Services, and Event Management services for the public and private sectors in Ghana. Originally in the form of two wholly-owned subsidiaries – Capital Consulting Limited and Capital Factors and Debt Management Services Limited – the group consolidated into one company, The Capital Group Limited by the close of 2004.

The company in line with its vision has built a multi-cultural workforce that allows it to build on the expertise of its non-executive directors and management team in the areas of Recruitment, Contract Staffing, Training, People and Project Management, and Financial Advisory Services. Over the years, our emphasis on quality coupled with our business philosophy of “The Power of Partnership” has earned us the trust of our clients.

We have developed deep relationships with clients in various sectors including Insurance, Banking, Mining, Manufacturing and Construction, Oil and Gas, Hospitality, Aviation, Telecommunication Services, and Engineering.

 

Group’s Full Range of Services

  1. Human Resource Services:
  • Recruitment
  • Contract/Temporary Staffing
  • Staff-Outsourcing
  • Consulting
  • Talent Management Solutions- Harrison Assessment
  • Staff Screening
  • HR Audit
  • Functional HR Outsourcing
  1. Training and Organizational Development:
  • Corporate Training
  • Leadership Retreat and Development
  • Change Management
  • Organizational Development
  • Customer Service Training (Representative/Consultant of the Service Quality Institute of USA).
  • Reliability Maintenance and Engineering Training
  • Effective Debt Recovery and Negotiations Skills Training
  • Corporate Image and Grooming
  • Supervisory Skills for Efficiency and Performance Training
  • Overcoming the Dysfunctions of a Team, Leadership and Management Skills Training
  1. Event Management:
  • International Workshops
  • Public Educational Seminars
  • Conferences
  • Annual People Challenge Summit (HR and IR Conference)
  • Maintenance Engineering Conference.
  1. Industrial Relations:
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Negotiation
  • Employee Relational Management
  1. E-Learning Solutions
  2. Financial Services
  • Financial Advisory Services
  • Debt Recovery
  • Receiver/Manager Function
  • Factoring

CLIENTS AND PARTNERSHIPS

  • GCB BANK LIMITED
  • FBN BANK LIMITED
  • TOTAL PETROLEUM GHANA
  • GHANA BAUXITE COMPANY LIMITED
  • CARGILL
  • GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
  • GRAPHIC PACKAGING
  • AVIAT NETWORK
  • ITALIAN TRADE AGENCY
  • JAY KAY LTD
  • MOBILITY INT.
  • DUNLOP CONVEYOR BELTING
  • IHRMP
  • GOLDFIELDS GHANA LTD
  • NEDCO

Learn more

Mastercard Joins AmCham Ghana

The chamber is pleased to announce the world’s fastest payment processing network, Mastercard, as our new Platinum Member.

For more than 50 years, Mastercard has been using their technology and expertise to make payments safer, simpler and smarter. They know safety and security are the top priorities of their customers, cardholders, and partners, that’s why they won’t stand still in developing new and better ways to keep payments safe.

Innovation is at the heart of Mastercard’s 50-year history. They take an innovative, value-driven approach to the solutions they create and the services they offer, making transactions faster, easier, and more convenient and secure.

As technology advances, devices change and payment methods adapt, Mastercard continually innovate to ensure the safety of billions of electronic payments wherever and whenever they occur. Their goal is to build a World Beyond Cash® where every person, every payment and every device is protected.

What started as a small group of bankers is now a driving force in the payments industry and providing the technology that’s leading the way toward a World Beyond Cash. Learn more here 

About the American Chamber of Commerce (Ghana)

The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Ghana is the representative arm of U.S businesses and subsidiaries voluntarily working to create an environment where businesses can thrive between Ghanaian and American communities. AmCham exists to promote commercial, economic, educational and cultural ties between the United States of America and the Republic of Ghana. The Chamber is one of the 118 affiliates of the U.S Chamber of Commerce, which is the world’s largest business association with over one million members worldwide.

www.amchamghana.org

Delta Air Lines – AmCham Ghana Business Reception

Delta Air Lines Ghana partnered with AmCham Ghana, U.S. Commercial Service, Devtraco Plus, and Fidelity Bank to host the Delta Business Reception at the Kempinski Gold Coast City hotel on Thursday, January 27, 2020.

Delta used the opportunity to introduce KLM as a new partner of the airline. Present at the event was the Country Manager for KLM, Dick van Nieuwenhuyzen.

The event’s market place theme was first of its kind, and guests were very pleased with the idea. It allowed attendees to ‘work the room’ and interact with ease.

About 100 guests showed up from different companies, including CEOs and Managers of companies like Consolidated Shipping, Energy Global, Petroleum Commission, BOST, Webster University, MODEC, McDan Shipping Company, and Intercon Security. The Board and Platinum Members of AmCham Ghana were also in attendance.

Pakwo Shum, Delta Air Lines MD, welcomed guests and handed over to Eloina Baddoo, Sales Manager, to talk about the aim of the event and acknowledge Delta’s partners. AmCham, Fidelity and Devtraco Plus were allowed to speak to guests.

The program featured a raffle which saw a lucky guest go home with a free Delta Air Lines ticket.

Music for the event was provided by the Air Force band and Ushered by the Delta Air Lines protocol team.

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Webster University Ghana: A Global Experience

The focus of institutions of higher learning is fast shifting from simply developing the knowledge base of students to the provisions of a well-rounded student-learning experience. Webster University Ghana, the only international campus location of Webster University on the African continent, is uniquely positioned to provide this opportunity.

A thriving liberal arts school and worldwide institution, Webster University’s mission is to ensure a high-quality learning experience that transforms students for global citizenship and individual excellence. Since the doors of Webster University Ghana were opened in 2014, students from across the world have enrolled at Webster Ghana each year and have benefitted from the cultural diversity and enriching academic environment. The modern campus, which has residential accommodations – is centrally located in Ghana’s capital Accra and in the much-coveted neighborhood of East Legon.

Currently, Webster University Ghana has enrolled both undergraduate and graduate students from over 25 different countries, spanning four continents. Furthermore, Webster receives a rotation of international visiting faculty every few weeks to teach students in both the graduate and undergraduate programs.

Christa Sanders – Campus Director – Webster University Ghana

The university’s Ghana campus offers a growing number of undergraduate majors, an Africana studies minor, and on the graduate side, a Master’s of Business Administration as well as an MA in International Relations. Graduate classes are held in the evenings and weekends only, to allow working professionals to continue work while pursuing a graduate degree.

Webster University Ghana offers a practical, hands-on approach to learning with small classrooms, not exceeding 25 students per space. Students are exposed to new ways of thinking and encouraged to strengthen their critical-thinking skills through ongoing debates both inside and outside of the classroom setting. Webster Ghana alumni are also part of the larger, elite network of over 190,000 alumni worldwide.

Webster Ghana is accredited by the National Accreditation Board (NAB) of Ghana and the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in the United States (US). All students receive a degree issued from the US and, regardless of specific degree area, follow the same curriculum worldwide.

The home campus in St Louis, Missouri, has an impressive track record of over 105 years of providing high-quality American education. Scholarships are also available for students and the Ghana campus is fortunate to have a lower tuition rate than the other international campuses where Webster has presence.

Webster University provides the opportunity for students to also study abroad during their course of study. Students may elect to study abroad for a nine-week term, semester or an entire academic year at any of Webster University’s international campuses. The current international campuses outside Ghana include Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, US, Thailand, China, Greece, the UK, and Uzbekistan. Webster also provides the World Traveler program which provides a free plane ticket to a campus of your choice!

Unlike most universities with only an August year start, Webster has 5 enrollment periods per year, allowing flexible start dates. Prospective students can apply at any time during the year and begin in August, October, January, March, and May. Learn More

 

Kosmos Energy Opens The KIC Incubation Hub In Accra

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kosmos Energy, Andy Inglis, accompanied by Country Manager, Joe Mensah, and Deputy Minister of Energy, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, on Wednesday, October 2, 2019, officially opened the Kosmos Innovation Centre Incubation Hub in Accra.

The hub is a 3,053 square meters multipurpose facility with co-working spaces and training rooms with the capacity to host about 20-25 startups from the KIC agritech challenge and serves as a springboard into the entrepreneurship world. It will also allow companies to scheduled sessions with coaches and mentors.

“Kosmos was once a start-up, too. We know what it’s like to see an opportunity, pursue a dream, and build a business.” Andy Inglis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kosmos Energy noted while delivering his remarks. He added that Kosmos Energy’s interest in Ghana is beyond just oil exploration, but to create economic opportunities as well.

Deputy Minister of Energy, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, commended Kosmos for the initiative. “I do not doubt that the many people the centre is turning out are going to take strategic positions in the Agric sector of our country and help to revolutionize and modernize agriculture to contribute to the growth of our economy,” the Minister added. He also urged beneficiaries of the programme to pass on their knowledge to others.

Country Manager of Kosmos Energy Ghana and AmCham Ghana President, Joe Mensah, charged entrepreneurs under the KIC incubation management program to make the best out of the newly built edifice.

“Yes they will have access to experts in the field and a pool of knowledge to shape their business, but one key thing is the opportunity to learn from each other and shape their businesses with personal experiences,” he said.

Kosmos Energy through the Kosmos Innovation Centre has so far created nineteen startups and with an investment of over $300,000 in seed capital.

The Kosmos Innovation Center inspires entrepreneurship by training participants to see opportunities that others miss, give them the confidence to view themselves as entrepreneurs not employees and job creators instead of job seekers. They do this by delivering a best-in-class leadership and entrepreneurship program.

They all out by providing a full life-cycle of support to the most promising entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small businesses. They do it through tailored coaching, skills building, expert mentorship, seed funding, and facilitating connections within and across industries.

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