(Issue, Friday, 16 September 2016)
Bright
Future Foundation the Gambia, a Charitable organization geared towards helping
the needy particularly children, yesterday donated clothes, shoes, and toys to
children and maternity wards of Jammeh Foundation for Peace and Serrekunda
General Hospital, as well as SOS Children Village in Bakoteh.
Speaking
at the handing-over functions held at the various hospitals, Mr Ismaila Ceesay,
president of Bright Future Foundation the Gambia, said the donation is geared
towards helping the needy and under privileged.
“We
are conscious that contributing towards National Development is everyone’s
responsibility, which is why we are always out to help the needy and the less
privileged,” he said. “Before we used to give it to the schools such as GOVI
but this time we decided to add the hospitals especially the children and the
maternity wards.”
He
said they would continue to give more support to ensuring quality life for the
poor and needy.
He
said the worth of the donation, which included clothes, shoes, toys and other
materials to hospitals, the SOS Children Village and to other needy children,
was D250,000.
They
also donated jerseys to Insight Training Centre football team, he said.
Alieu
D. Badjie, Public Relations Officer at the Serrekunda General Hospital, said
they were happy to receive the donated materials from the foundation.
“Health
is expensive and no one person can do it alone,” he averred.
He
said the donated materials would be great help to the beneficiaries, for which
he thanked the donors and promised that the items will be put into good use.
Aisha
Ndimbalan Matron at JFP said in her remarks on the occasion: “We are delighted
to receive the donation. The mothers and the children are very much happy to
receive the items. As admin we are very much happy to receive you and we pray
for you to come back again to help us go from strength to strength.
“Being
a very new facility we are treating lots of patients around. As an old Facility
too we usually received 5000 deliveries the whole year and 40,000 outpatients a
year; so this donation is timely because our catchment area is very bulky,
which is 150,000. We thank you for the
donation.”
Amie
Njie-Touray, Senior Nursing Officer, head of maternity at JFP, said: “You are
in the same line with us because this hospital is viewed to be a maternity
hospital where women and children are being cared for and if you have children
in mind definitely then we are under the same umbrella.”
She
said further: “We assure you that the items will be put into good use. We are
grateful and hope this is just the beginning and that we will receive such
gestures from you in the future. We thank you on behalf of the mothers and
children of this hospital.”
