At Guaranty Trust, we see the COVID-19 pandemic not only as a global humanitarian crisis that is putting lives and livelihoods at risk, but also as a fundamental challenge to live up to our core values as a platform for enriching lives.
The COVID-19 pandemic is putting an overwhelming burden on healthcare systems, hampering business operations, disrupting our ways of life and driving billions of people into further socio-economic despair. Since the start of the outbreak, we have focused on three core objectives: protecting our employees, providing critical support for the public healthcare system and finding innovative ways to support customers and businesses that have been hit hard by the pandemic.
We are helping our communities and the government in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Working with partners across several industries, we delivered a 110-bed care facility for people with COVID-19 to help the government respond quickly and adequately to the spread of the virus.
Pulling our communities out of the COVID-19 crises also requires providing very robust support for small businesses, who make up the largest employer of labour in the country and are, unfortunately, among the hardest hit economically.