During the presentation ceremony at the company’s offices off Kairaba Avenue, country manager, Yankuba Mamburay, said the donation of the rams is a further testament to Karpowership’s commitment to living up to its corporate social responsibility.
He said Sunday’s event was the second time in as many years that his company has donated rams to needy people and institutions on the occasion of eid-ul-adha (the Muslim festival of sacrifice).
He said in response to the government’s call for help in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic and amelioration of the economic and health hardships it has brought, Karpowership purchased five ventilators worth millions of dalasis for the Ministry of Health, made donations including food and sanitary materials to the Gambia Police Force, the Banjul City Council, Kerewan Area Council and Mansa Konko Area Council.
Manager Mamburay underlined that although electricity generation is the core business of Karpowership, its corporate philosophy is hinged on giving back to the community.
He explained: “That is why our interventions are holistic. Since Karpowership signed a power purchase agreement with Nawec and started operations in 2018, we have managed to stabilise the electricity supply in the country by providing at least 30MW in the national grid. In our corporate social responsibility interventions, we have periodically given out hundreds of bags of rice and sugar and drums of cooking oil to boarding schools housing indigent children, orphanages and needy individuals.
“We have spent over a million dalasis to fix the water problem at the children’s wing at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital; we have refurbished, expanded, reequipped and restocked the Gambia National Library branch at Brikama; we have spent hundreds of thousands of dalasis to buy fishing gears and other materials for fishermen and fisherwomen in Banjul; and we have helped the National Environment Agency in marking key events in its annual calendar like the National Environment Day and International Coastal Clean-up Day among other things.”
Mr Mamburay thanked the management of Karpowership in Istanbul, Turkey, notably the regional director for Africa, Emre Durmuşoğlu, for expediting requests for corporate social responsibility activities.
Natoma Jammeh, one of the recipients of the rams, thanked Karpowership for coming to the aid of needy people like she in these straitened times compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.
The presentation ceremony was chaired by Sheriff Bojang, the public relations consultant for Karpowership.
Abdoulie Gaye, the 21 year old driver responsible for the fatal accident along the Senegambia road, which claimed the lives of three individuals has now been charged with manslaughter, The Point has been reliably informed.
Annually 8 March is set aside to commemorate International Women’s Day globally. The UN in The Gambia joins hands with all people in The Gambia to celebrate and applaud progress made to remove discrimination and inequalities faced by women, while enhancing their protection and empowerment in line with Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Addis Ababa, March 2 .- The Cuban Embassy in this capital delivered a letter from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla addressed to the President of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Hon. Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat, in which he thanked that regional organisation for the adoption of the "Resolution on the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on the Republic of Cuba by the United States of America", during the 34th Assembly of the organisation recently held.
The executive director of the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), Sanna Dahaba in an interview with this reporter yesterday revealed that the government of The Gambia under the leadership of Adama Barrow through the Ministry of Finance, Wednesday 4 August 2021, has transferred a sum of D40 million to the NDMA account to support disaster victims across the country.
