By:Isaac Amoah
The largest telecommunications company in the country, MTN Ghana, has impacted thousands of lives across the country with the implementation of 173 major projects through its Foundation.
The major projects range from health, education, economic conditions, employment, aside from eight (8) social impact or intervention programmes.
Mrs. Georgina Asare Fiagbenu, the Senior Manager for Corporate Communications at MTN Ghana, revealed this during the 2025 MTN media stakeholder forum held at Lancaster Hotel, Kumasi, on Thursday, 28th August 2025.
Some scenes from the forum
She said, “MTN Ghana, through our Foundation, has so far completed 173 major projects, including classroom blocks, health facilities and this doesn’t include our annual MTN ye’llo care event projects.”
“Out of the projects,90 are in the area of education, 57 projects are in the health sector and the remaining 18 major projects are in the area of economic employment,” she added.
Besides, the company has eight interventions which have also benefited hundreds of people but are accounted or recorded as one project. Examples of such interventions include the annual “Hero of Change” programme, Bright Scholarship for tertiary students, annual blood donation exercise, among others.
Mr.Nii Adotey Mingle,Mrs Adwoa Wiafe Afriyie,Mr. Dickson Amoung-Yaw and Mrs.Rosebud Atsutsey during a panel discussion session
Touching on the network infrastructure improvement and expansion, Mr. Dickson Amoung-Yaw, Manager, Network Field Services for Northern Zone, disclosed that this year alone the network had become the most vital backbone in the lives of people and MTN Ghana has plans of expanding and improving the network to wherever people find themselves.
To this end, MTN, since the beginning of this year, has committed to coverage expansion to where there is no connectivity at all.
“Currently, we have earmarked 14 sites and in the area of data expansion; 533 have been targeted this year alone. Out of the number, 430 have already been done,” he disclosed.
Mr. Amoung-Yaw said since fibre infrastructure was the backbone of quality network, they were doing a lot there and in the Ashanti Region alone, 1,328 sites are being worked on.
“We’ve invested US $245 million for infrastructure development to improve on the network for our customers.That’s why we advocate that we need to maintain the fibre for good network connectivity,” he added.
He, however, expressed concerns that since January to date, 585 fibre cuts had been recorded in the Ashanti Region alone.
He said out of the number, 63 were traffic impacted fibre cuts which affected 1,075 customers who were unable to makes calls.
Earlier in his welcome address, Mr. Nii Adotey Mingle, General Manager, Northern Business sector, explained that the forum was designed to update the media and other stakeholders, and also to get feedback from them to help improve their services.
“This engagement is also about strengthening our engagement with our stakeholders, especially the media, all geared towards serving our customers well or meeting the customers’ satisfaction,” he stressed.
