Orange starts Ramadan donation nationwide

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Orange mobile company has started their usual food distribution nationwide to Muslim communities and Mosques. The nationwide distribution of assorted food items worth over Two Hundred and Seventy-one Million Leones to Communities and Patron mosques across the country started yesterday Monday with an official launching to be held in Freetown. The assorted food items, include bags of Rice, Gallons of cooking oil, Bags of Sugar, Onions, Milk, Tomato and more. All community mosques that have been identified for the donation, will receive twenty bags of rice (50Kg), ten bags of onions, five bags of milk, five bags of sugar, ten cartons of tin tomatoes, five gallons of cooking oil and three cartons of Maggie; Whilst the Patron Mosques will receive ten bags of rice (50Kg), three gallons of cooking oil, three bags of sugar, three bags of milk, four bags of onions, five cartoon of tin tomatoes and three cartons of Maggie. According to Mabel Mason of the Public Relations Department of Orange-SL, Orange as a company has gone through transformation due to the cooperation of subscribers, and the Holy Month of Ramadan, being a month of giving and receiving, the company saw the need as a tradition and culture to give back to Sierra Leoneans, even at a time when the country is being hit with the coronavirus that has hindered all sectors in society. She added that fasting is one of the Pillars of Islam and it is obligatory to every Muslim, but most of them find it hard to fulfill that sacred obligation due to the economic situation. Therefore, they thought it wise to share those assorted food items that are needed during the month of fasting to the less privileged. She stated that the distribution will start on Monday 18th May, 2020 to 24th May, 2020 and during this process they will target Freetown CBD, Freetown Lungi, Southern Province, Eastern Province and the Northern Province, adding that they have identified both the community and patron mosques in the districts that will benefit from the donation. She said that they have also been distributing food items to handicapped and the blind across the country, but maintained that because of the covid-19 they have decided to limit the donation to mosques across the country. She noted that this gesture by the company is a clear manifestation that Orange-SL cares for the nation and its citizens and that they are determined to stand by the side of the people of this country during good and bad times. She said that Orange-SL is a law abiding company and will ensure that during the donation process they will adhere to all protective measures instituted by the Government in order to curtail the spread of the coronavirus in the country. “Whether you are a subscriber of Orange or not, we have the onus to reach the last village or town in Sierra Leone to share this blessing as we believe in equality.” The first Mosque to receive the gift from Orange was the Jamaat of ILMU ZIRK mosque at Hill station as Regional Business Manager in the Central Business District in Freetown, Achmed Mansaray entreated the muslim community to accept the items in good faith. “You are the customers of Orange SL and you have been using our services throughout,” Mansaray says. In his contribution, Orange SL’s Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Desmond Spaine reminded the jamaat that the donation is a fulfilment of a key pillar of Islam-Iftar.

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