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Trust Bank The Gambia Limited (GTBank) has continued to put smile on faces of
customers after presenting the first set of prizes to 13 winners of its 2017
Save and Win promo.
GTBank,
which is Gambia’s Bank of the Year, last year sent a good number of its
customers to cloud nine with beneficial gifts and awards under its unique
year-round ethical saving-culture promotion, called GTBank Save & Win
Promo.
No
sooner it completed the 2016 promo than it started the 2017 campaign of
encouraging savings culture in The Gambia by giving out invaluable items to
winning customers of its all-beneficial initiative.
The
first set of prizes, which include two categories of customers, were presented
on Friday 14 July at the bank’s head office on Kairaba Avenue to the lucky
winners who included Ameth Ndiaye, Ebrima Manneh, Tunko Sanneh, Ebenezer Peter
Shyngle, Muhammed Susso, Marek Robert Kapalka, Idiatu Ibiyeye, Aminata Jallow,
Fatoto Water Ming. Comm (Ismaile) and Bakary Jammeh (for category one), whilst
category two included Christ Kolley, Saikou Jaiteh and Lamin Fofana.
To
qualify as one of the prize winners, customers are expected to maintain deposit
balances of various categories. Category one includes customers who maintain
deposit balances ranging from D10,000 to D50,000. Winning customers of this category are
entitled to 2 bags of rice, 1 bag of onion, 1 bag of 25kg sugar and a gallon of
20-litre vegetable oil.
In
category two, the customer should maintain deposit balances of above D50,000.
Prizes for winners of this category include a motorbike, fridge freezer and
32-inch LED TV set.
In
category three, which comes on in the last and finale draw (Grand Finale), the
customer is to maintain deposit balance of D200,000 and above, from April to
December.
The
grand final prizes for the 3rd category are a complete bedroom set for the
third winner, return ticket to Dubai for one person and travel money of $2,000
for the second winner, and Hyundai Tucson for the first winner.
In
her remarks at the prize presentation, GTBank Executive Director Isatou Jawara
encouraged customers to intensify the habit of saving, as she called on people
to bank with GTBank.
She
said the 2017 Save and Win Promotion is one of the bank’s ways of giving back
to the people that have trust in it, as
well as to promote savings culture and the national economic development
agenda.
The
prizes, she explained, are divided into three categories with the intention of
accommodating all customers, adding that awards are given on quarterly basis in
July, October and at the end of 2017.
Being
a leading financial intermediary in The Gambia, GTBank is out to encourage the
culture of saving, especially among the unbanked population of the country.
The
campaign was also initiated to give back to customers of the bank, as they are
stakeholders of the bank, she said.
The
GTBank Save and Win deposit mobilization campaign has a lot of goods and value
for GTBank customers and the unbanked in the country, as the prizes given to
the winners are simply a fulfilment of the Bank’s Corporate Social
Responsibility pledge as a corporate citizen of The Gambia.
All
the winners at the prize presentation applauded the Save and Win promo and
commended GTBank for the initiative, which they said is out to help them better
their lives.
They
promised to continue banking with GTBank and did encourage the general people
to become clients and customers of the bank.
In
his closing remarks, Dodou Bojang, GTBank’s Corporate Unit Head, who moderated
the programme, said it is always good to save with GTBank, as they “always go
the extra mile” to serve and meet customers’ expectations.
“We
have a lot of beneficial products and services for our customers,” Mr Bojang
said.
