PHOTO: MNG Gold recent donation
By Emmanuel Mafelah, mafelahemmanuel29@gmail.com
Turkish-owned Gold Exploration Mining Company, MNG Gold-Liberia operating in Kokoyah Statutory District, Bong County have presented several food and non-food items to private and public institutions in the County.
Institutions that benefited includes; the Feleta Children Village Orphanage Home, the Christ Children Orphanage Home, the Nathanael Varney Massaquoi High School, Botota Junior high School, the Suakoko Leprosy Rehabilitation Center, the Christian Association of the Blind and amongst others in the county.
The government-run Nathanael Varney Massaquoi High School received five bundles of zincs; the Feleta Children Village orphanage home benefited five bags of 25kg rice, the Botota Junior high School in Kokoyah District received five bundles of zincs, the Christian Association of the Blind in Gbarnga received twenty-five bags of 25kg rice, the Suakoko Leprosy Rehabilitation Center in Suakoko received twenty bags of 25kg rice, while the Christ Children Orphanage Home got five bags of 25kg rice.
Presenting the items earlier during the week (Thursday March 18, 2021) in the County, the company,s Community Liaison Officer, J. Keith Gboe, and the Communication Relations Officer, Llody N. Ngwayah said the donation is the Company’s own way of stretching hands to less fortunate and disadvantaged Liberians amid the economic crisis in the country.
Said Gboe and Ngwaya,“We have observed that there are many of you that’s finding it very difficult to survive in this very challenging moment in our country, some of you cannot even afford to buy a cup of rice so MNG Gold Liberia have come to put smile on your faces. We believe that these items will help you alot, even though they are not much.”
The donation, according to them is a program crafted by the Company to regularly give back to society.
The two officials maintained that the Company will remain committed to empowering the less fortunate and disadvantaged Liberians despite the challenges.
Taking delivery of the items, the beneficiary institutions extended commendations to the management of MNG Gold Liberia for the gesture describing it as timely.
According to them, what MNG Gold have done will foribe remember in the history of their different institutions and individuals lives, and hoped that this will not just be the last.
“It came at the right time where indeed we are in need and thank God somebody elsewhere is thinking about the Liberian children,” they stated.
The institutions then promised to use the food and non-food items wisely and stressed the need for more support to their individual institution despite the prevailing situations in the country.