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  • Jospong Group holds 2023 End of Year Thanksgiving Service Sucessfully

    The Jospong Group of Companies has successfully held its 2023 End of year Thanksgiving Service at the Group’s Headquarters in Ashalley Botwe, Nmai Djorn, Accra.

    The weeklong Thanksgiving Service was held from Monday December 4 to Friday December 8, 2023.

    In a sermon, a Guest Speaker, Apostle Kingsley Addai, of the Pentecost International Worship Centre (PIWC), Kokomlemle Accra underscored the value of thanksgiving in the life of every believer.

    He was full of praise for the Jospong Group in acknowledging God as the sustainable source for the business over the years.

    Apostle Addai prayed for unity among Ghanaian businessmen as they contribute their quota towards the development of the nation.

    On his part, the Managing Director of Zoomlion Private Services Ltd, Edwin Amoako said the Group takes advantage of the annual thanksgiving service to win souls for Christ through its street evangelism as well as educate the public on good sanitary habits.

    Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong the Executive Chairman was full of praises to God for a successful year. 

    He also led the workers on a street evangelism with members of staff wielding placards with gospel inscriptions along some principal streets around the Group’s operational headquarters located at Nmai Djorn on the University Farm Road.

    Some of the inscriptions on the placards were; “Jesus is the way, the truth and the life,” “Come to Jesus,”; “HEAVEN Is Real,”; “Jesus- Na Him Be Oga,” and “Inspite of your sins, Jesus still loves you.”

    Other inscriptions read; “He is with you until the end of time,”; “Jesus is still in the miracle business,”; “Jesus Is Eveready to Help You,”

    As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility activities in thanksgiving to God for his unconditional mercies to the Group for the year 2023, the Executive Chairman Pledged   support for dialysis patients who cannot pay their bills at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital with over GHc500,000.

    According to him, officials of the Group will work with authorities at the Dialysis Centre at Korle Bu in identifying patients who are financially handicapped and support them in the payment of the bills.

    Dr. Agyepong prayed that the good Lord which is a God of healing to heal the sick especially the dialysis patients even as the company plays its part through the cash support for their treatment.

    Guests who attended the 2023 Jospong Group Thanksgiving service included the Chairman of the Church of Pentecost, Apostle Eric Nyamekye, Areas Heads of the church, Pastors and their wives, politicians, stakeholders in the waste and sanitation sector, traditional rulers, employees and community members among other stakeholders.

  • Appointed Time and GIZ donate equipment worth €27,000 to Pentecost Hospital

    Appointed Time, a subsidiary of the Jospong Group of Companies and The German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), have donated laboratory equipment worth over €27,000 (¢317,000) to the Pentecost Hospital at Madina in the Greater Accra Region.

    The donation was to fulfil a request by the management of the hospital to meet the demand of services from growing number of patients who visit the facility daily.

    Presenting the equipment to the hospital on behalf of GIZ and Jospong Group, the Chief Corporate Communication Officer at Jospong Group of Companies, Sophia Kudjordji, said the donation was to help management address the pressure on the facility.

    Madam Kudjordji said some philanthropists personally brought 20 thermometers to the Executive Chairman of Jospong Group, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyapong, which he added to the other items presented.

    “This afternoon, we are here with our colleagues from GIZ to do this presentation and we hope this will help management in taking care of their portion of the numerous challenges many hospitals are facing because of lack of resources,” Madam Kudjordji stated.

    “We believe this our widow’s mite will help solve some of your challenges,” she added.

    Some of the equipment donated are ph meter, urine analyzer, water bath, water distiller, vein finder, Coombs machine and microscope-eyepieces.

    The rest are centrifuge, roller hematology 5-part, micropipette and glassware kits.

    Receiving the items on behalf of the facility, its Medical Director, Apostle Dr. Edward Arko Kwarteng, said the equipment was going to complement management effort in handling basic laboratory stuff.

    “We are happy to receive these items and assure you and GIZ that management are going to put them to the best of use.

    “We also trust that there will be post-donation maintenance relationship, including the supply of reagents so that these machines can enjoy their life span and serve the community,” Dr. Kwarteng stated.

    On behalf of the management and the board of the hospital, Apostle Dr. Kwarteng thanked GIZ and the Jospong Group for the gift and asked for future collaboration.

    Present at the ceremony was Pastor Daniel Danso, Chaplain of the Group, Thomas Korley, Head of Zoomlion foundation and other executives of the Jospong Group.

    Before the donation to the Pentecost Hospital, GIZ and the Jospong Group had done similar gesture in Yilo Krobo District in the Eastern Region, with both donations costing €70,000, equivalent to ¢860,116.99.

  • Accra Sewerage Systems to expand its operations

    The Accra Sewerages Systems Ghana Ltd is set to expand and upgrade its liquid waste treatment plant and technologies to treat more liquid waste within Accra and its environs. The expansion project which is going to be undertaken by EMO, an environmental technology company based in France will help increase the capacity of the plant to treat its current capacity of 2000 to 3500 cubic meters of liquid waste per day. An additional technology which will be added will help sieve out other solid waste which are normally found in the liquid waste that are brought to the facility. At a brief ceremony to sign the agreements to begin works on the expansion, The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong tasked the contractor to build and install a robust technology as promised to help solve the unique composition of Ghana’s liquid waste.

    He said issues of Sanitation is a priority in Ghana hence the need to frequently expand and upgrade technologies to meet the increasing disposal of liquid waste in Accra. Dr. Agyepong indicated that work on the Kumasi Liquid waste treatment plant is almost complete and will soon serve the liquid waste treatment needs of the people within the Ashanti region. He revealed that similar works in Western, Tema and Tamale regions have begun and the capacities to be built will help receive all manner of liquid waste and prevent indiscriminate dumping of wastewater which is a health hazard. He tasked the contractor to roll out a local content capacity building where staff will be train in the design and maintenance of the technology to help transfer knowledge to Ghanaians who will be managing the new plant.

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    The Chief Executive Officer of EMO, Phillippe Hardouin who co- signed the agreement stated that such a partnership with the Jospong group is the first of its kind that a French technology will be used in Ghana to treat liquid waste. He emphasized that the plant to be built is robust and specially designed by top notch engineers to help solve the problem of solid waste mixed together with the liquid waste and the increased generation of waste water. He said the Executive Chairman’s request to train local staff has been considered and will help to properly maintain the plant when installed.

    Mr. Hardouin said the technology to be used has never existed anywhere in the world and its uniqueness will bring more investment opportunities in the country.

    The Managing Director of Sewerages Systems Ghana Limited, Ing. (Mrs) Florence Cobbold who signed on behalf of the Jospong group said the new plant will expand the company’s operations to receive over 350 cesspit trucks per day which is a huge leap from the previous capacity of 200 trucks per day. She said the expansion is to contain all liquid waste brought to the facility and prevent instances where people will begin to dump at unauthorized places which is due to long queues at the plant.

    Mrs Cobbold indicated the new plant will be able to sieve out other components of the waste that are brought to the facility such as used condoms, sanitary pads, diapers among other Solids. She was optimistic that the new project will bring alot of relief to the current handlers of the plant as the automation of the new plant will bring excitement among staff and increase productivity. Sewerages Systems Ghana Limited is the game changer in Ghana’s fight against improper disposal of liquid waste and helped solve Ghana’s 100 year problem of dumping liquid waste into the sea.

    Since the establishment of the plant in 2012, it has built similar plant in Adjen Kotoku, James Town, Kumasi and other communities in Ghana. The plant was featured on CNN’s innovative cities as a project which is helping turn human waste into green energy.