The gesture, which forms part of the NGO 15th anniversary celebration, is to reach out to country’s only psychiatric hospital annually and accord members the opportunity to spend time with the patients and staff.
The items donated include firewood, rice, sugar, detergents, toilet soaps, shoes, used clothing, sanitary pads, cooking oil, and electric bulbs.
At the presentation, Ismaila Bojang, a member of the Kinkiliba Family underscored the importance of giving back to the community, especially the Tanka-Tanka Psychiatry.
The donation, he added, was made in consultation with the hospital senior staff to ask what the staff and the patients pressing needs are and the Kinkiliba family decided to intervene.
Buba Barrow, a senior doctor at the Tanka-Tanka Psychiatric, while expressing gratitude to the NGO, described the donation as ‘timely and worthy’ and that it would go a long way in addressing some of their challenges.
Bakary Camara, head of Tanka-Tanka Psychiatric Hospital, talked about the long-term ties that exist between Kinkiliba Family and the Tanka-Tanka Psychiatric Centre.
He acknowledged Kinkiliba family's annual largesse to the centre, saying the support is one of the biggest donations the centre usually received.
He thus thanked the donor for the move and urged other organisations to emulate the Kinkiliba Family in view of the fact that government alone cannot do it, thus the need for partnership.
Fanta Danso, a member of the Kinkiliba Family, expressed the NGO’s resolve to continue reaching out to the community most especially the Tanka-Tanka Psychiatric Centre.
The patients being admitted at the centre, she observed, needed more than those items usually provided. “They need our support, love, and care”, she said.
She thus thanked members of the Kinkiliba Family who put their time, efforts and money together to support Tanka-Tanka.
It would be recalled that the Kinkiliba Family started in 2009 as a group of people, who came together through a radio program dubbed ‘Kinkiliba’ aired on Paradise FM.
