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CDH Investment Bank Limited supports the University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, in the production of COVID-19 support materials

Written on 22 April 2021.

CDH Investment Bank donates essential medical equipment and supplies worth K27.8 million to the Society of Medical Doctors of Malawi to assist in the fight against COVID-19

Written on 04 March 2021.

CDH Investment Bank on Wednesday 24^th February 2021 donated various essential medical equipment and supplies worth K27.8 million to the Society of Medical Doctors in Malawi (SMD) to assist in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The items donated include oxygen cylinders, oxygen flowmeters and regulators, pulse oximeters and other equipment and materials. The donation is in line with the bank’s pillar to give back and support the community through social initiatives that make impact.

CDH Investment Bank supports Kamuzu College of Nursing students with online remote learning equipment

Written on 10 December 2020.

CDH Investment Bank’s Chief Business Development Officer, Mr Benison Jambo (R) hands over a donation of K4 million to the Vice Principal of the Kamuzu College of Nursing, Dr Belinda Gombachika (L) and a student representative, Ms Hilda Chinoko (M)

CDH Investment Bank has donated K4 million to the Kamuzu College of Nursing (KCN), a constituent college of the University of Malawi. The donation was made to support students access online learning equipment, including internet dongles, tables and computers. The equipment will allow nursing students to attend classes remotely as the college enforces social distance learning methods during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic period.

Appointment of Mr Thoko Mkavea as Deputy Chief Executive Officer

Written on 24 November 2020.

Appointment of Mr Thoko Mkavea as Deputy Chief Executive Officer

The board of CDH Investment Bank is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Thoko Mkavea as Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) and Head of Investment Banking (HIB) for the bank, effective 2nd October 2020.

Until his appointment, Mr Mkavea served as the bank’s Chief Investment Banking Officer since 2012. Prior to this, Mr Mkavea held several senior management positions in the group. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the bank in 2012. Mr Mkavea has over 20 years’ experience covering finance, investment banking, asset finance, structured finance and general management.

Mr Mkavea is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA) and a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA). He also holds an MBA from the University of Derby (United Kingdom) and a Bachelor of Accountancy Degree from the University of Malawi

CDH Investment Bank donates K3.5 million to Beit Cure International Hospital

Written on 02 November 2020.

$CDH Investment Bank has donated K3.5 million to Beit Cure International Hospital, in Blantyre. The donation was made in order to support the hospital sustain charitable paediatric surgeries which it carries out to children at the hospital. Making the donation, CDH Investment Bank’s Chief Treasury Officer, Mr Paul Nyachiwowa expressed the bank’s appreciation to the hospital for the great work they do in supporting children with disabilities. “we are touched by your great spirit of service especially towards children and we have been compelled to support you”. He said that during this time, when the world is battling the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, we hear that operations at the Beit Cure International Hospital have been negatively affected. The pandemic has affected delivery of your core services to children mainly the provision of post-operative rehabilitative care and mobility devices to children who have received treatment at the hospital. We believe that our contribution will go a long way in assisting you take care of our children during these very unprecedented times. Receiving the donation, Beit Cure Hospital Medical Director Dr Kaiser Raphael thanked CDH Investment Bank for the gesture and expressed confidence that the funds will go a long way in providing mobility devices and post-surgery care for many children at the hospital. He further indicated that it is sad to learn that some children had failed to enjoy normal life during the COVID-19 restrictions because of their lack of basic life support resources and post-surgery care. Dr Raphael added that, through the partnership with CDH Investment Bank; the hospital will endeavour to ensure that children with special needs receive better care and support from the hospital especially now as the world is facing social disintegration resulting from the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. He further called upon other institutions to emulate the example set by CDH Investment Bank in supporting the plight of the special needs children who he said has a right to good life similar to any normal child. Beit Cure International Hospital is the main specialised orthopedic hospital in Malawi offering services to both adults and children. The hospital offers free services to children and paid services to adults. Services offered among others include fracture repair, club feet repair and all other physiological services.$

CDH Investment Bank has donated K3.5 million to Beit Cure International Hospital, in Blantyre. The donation was made in order to support the hospital sustain charitable paediatric surgeries which it carries out to children at the hospital. Making the donation, CDH Investment Bank’s Chief Treasury Officer, Mr Paul Nyachiwowa expressed the bank’s appreciation to the hospital for the great work they do in supporting children with disabilities. “we are touched by your great spirit of service especially towards children and we have been compelled to support you”. He said that during this time, when the world is battling the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, we hear that operations at the Beit Cure International Hospital have been negatively affected.