FNB Botswana celebrates academic excellence
Staff Writer | Tuesday October 27, 2015 15:30
Most recent efforts include sponsorships valued at over P800, 000 invested in Gaborone, Mahalapye, Lobatse, and Gantsi.
Driving home the importance of savings as part of stimulating wealth creation opportunities as well as entrepreneurial thinking, FNBB has dedicated itself to providing products catering for Botswana’s student and graduate population. Pioneering solutions including the Flexi Fixed Deposit Account, Student Accounts, and the FNB Graduate Portfolio; FNBB remains committed to being the trusted life partner of tomorrow’s leaders on their road to success.
FNBB Communications Manager Kemiso Ben said, “It’s important to us that we see our youth through every milestone in their lives. We are there for them from as early as Reception with the Future Forward Account, Future Save and Flexi Fixed Deposit Account which can be opened by parents or legal Guardians for minors. When they move on to tertiary, they get the Student Account through which they receive their government allowance. Once they graduate and join the work force, they can begin to build their lives with the FNB Graduate Portfolio or the Gold Cheque Account.
The rewards on savings and investments are always worthwhile.
As a bank, we pride ourselves on our ability to be our young people’s financial partner at all the different life stages.
Recently FNBB participated in the following engagements:
Gaborone: 5th Combined Graduation Ceremony For Affiliated Institutions of the University of Botswana under the theme: Tertiary Education Transformation In Botswana: A Key to Global Competitiveness. FNB awarded trophies to ‘Best Overall Students’ across 14 disciplines from the Institute of Health Sciences (IHS), Colleges of Education and Botswana College of Engineering and Technology.
Gaborone: 2015 University of Botswana (UB) Graduation – With a donation of P700,000 towards the event.
Gantsi: Gantsi Brigade Prize Giving – Where FNB Gantsi branch awarded a P5,000 investment into a 12 month FNB Flexi Fixed Deposit Account to this year’s top overall performing student, Tshupo Setlhakwane. The investment was much welcomed since Setlhakwane is still a student allowing time for his investment to grow and retrieve the interest earned upon account maturity.
Mahalapye: Madiba Secondary School Talk on Education and Fighting Social Ills - Where FNB Mahalapye made a donation of P1,000 to the Best Students in Form 4 and Form 5 and conducted talks with parents on the importance of starting savings for their children from a young age.
Lobatse: Molopo River Junior Secondary School Prize Giving – The ceremony was convened under the theme “Striving For Academic Excellence Through Collaborative Initiatives.”
The FNB Lobatse team awarded the school’s top 60 students with school bags and cases of stationary.
“Our partnerships with Botswana’s academia is a vital relationship we remain committed to nurturing. We are therefore overjoyed at the chance to celebrate students who have applied themselves with excellence as they invest in their futures.
Saving for tomorrow really starts from making the little investments that we can today and we are therefore grateful to play our part in driving this mindset through our relationships with the educational sector.
“We continue to develop the market’s best products and services for every step of the way in the lives of our youth,” concluded Ben.