Moneygram Launched video conferencing equipment

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Monegram, a Diasporan remittance Agency is partnering the Ministries of Foreign Affairs in Africa to provide a platform that is more structured and focused channel that will allow Africans engage with their motherland.Moneygram

Operating in thousands of locations across the world, Monegram offers a safe, convenient, regulated and secure means of remitting money home.

To allow meaningful engagement between Africans and people of African descent in the Diaspora and the motherland on issues of acquiring passports, business opportunities among other concerns, Monegram presented a video conferencing equipment to enhance the ministries ability to reach Ghanaians abroad in a cost effective manner.

?We are confident that this video conferencing equipment will enhance the ministries ability to reach Ghanaians abroad in an effective and cost optimised manner. In these days of austerity and in the era of fear of travelling due to Ebola, we are confident that this will provide a sustainable link for a Diaspora engagement?, Mrs Kemi Okunsanya, Monegram Regional Manager- Anglophone West Africa said.

Moneygram she said was in talks with the ministry to harness the power of social media and added ?watch out for that space for some new innovations?.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration lauded the initiative saying it had come at the right time.

?People in the Diaspora are in touch with their country but we want to enhance and harness their engagements, not only about money transfer but about pertinent issues of concern. Informally we have a lot of engagement with Africans abroad but we need a more formal and structured channel of engagement.

GNA

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