More donate to flood victims

Accra, Sept. 21, GNA - Touched by the plight of the flood victims in the three Northern Regions (Upper East, Upper West and Northern), four companies and the Spanish Embassy on Friday donated various items worth millions of cedis to the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) towards their upkeep.

The companies are Melcom Ghana Limited, Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited, the Volta Foundation and Crocodile Machetes Limited. The Spanish Embassy donated tents, blankets and medicine worth 220, 000 thousand euros.

Presenting the items, Mr Jorge Montediegre, Spanish Ambassador, said the donation followed an appeal the government made to his country.

Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) also donated ceramic pot filters estimated at Gh=A2 17,000 (170 million cedis) to the victims. Speaking at the presentation, Pamela Djamson-Tettey, Corporate Relations Director, said the company had it as its aim to let about 10,000 people from the affected communities benefit from that gesture by next week.

She said since the company used sorghum in the manufacture of some of its products, a quantity of the filters would be distributed to sorghum farmers in the affected areas saying, "the farmers are stakeholders in our business, and GGBL believes that it is the right thing to do".

She said GGBL as part of its social responsibilities had come up with a project known as "Water for Life Programme" which was aimed at providing 200,000 Ghanaians with access to potable water by the end of the year.

Under the initiative, about 40,000 people already had access to potable water through the distribution of 4000 water filters in some priority rural communities in the country.

The Volta Foundation, an NGO with aimed at the development of the Volta Region also donated food items, including bags of rice, sugar, cooking oil and canned tomatoes fish and 200 pieces of treated mosquito nets valued at about 11 million cedis.

Crocodile Machetes Limited, machete manufacturing company, also donated their products valued at 21 million cedis while Melcom Ghana Limited donated biscuits, plastic wares and cash of 25 million cedis. Nana Obiri Boahene, Minster of State, at the Ministry of the Interior who received the donations on behalf of the government expressed appreciation to the donors and promised that the items would be distributed fairly to the victims.

He appealed to all to help the flood victims by donating towards their well-being.