Sierra Leone News: DIAGEO-GUINNESS donates £100,000 for Ebola fight

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Managing Director of Sierra Leone Brewery Limited, Alphones Willy Ngana, on behalf of DIAGEO-GUINNESS, yesterday presented £100,000 (one hundred thousand British pounds sterling) to CARE International for the people of Sierra Leone at the National Ebola Response Centre (NERC). The donation of the £100,000 (one hundred Thousand British pounds) was accompanied with additional Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) worth millions of Leones, through Brewery’s parent Company, HEINEKEN International to aid in the fight. Presenting the money to the Head of Administration at Care International, in the presence of Brigadier, D.T.O Taluva, who represented the Coordinator of NERC, the Managing Director of SLBL, Alphones Willy Ngana, disclosed that the donation by Diageo-Guinness through the DIAGEO Foundation, is as a result of the increasing trend of the disease, which has become a global concern, adding that the money should be used by CARE International for the provision of vital medical supplies including protective equipment (PPEs), hygiene kits containing soap, veronica buckets, chlorine for the medical personnel helping patients with the disease. He maintained that the donation is in addition to the £ 30,000(thirty thousand British pounds sterling) worth of PPEs that was recently done to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) by DIAGEO Foundation, to aid their operations in the country, especially in providing vital medical supplies and PPEs for MSF Doctors and Nurses caring for Ebola patients. The MD noted that as partners in development and progress, they are of the view that the fight against Ebola must be by collaborative effort, by everyone locally and internationally, as it is their collective effort to ensure that the disease is put under control, within the shortest time, explaining that SLBL as part of HEINEKEN, together with their business partners especially Diageo-Guinness, will continue to operate in the Country ‘Ebola or no Ebola’. Receiving the money on behalf of CARE International for the people of Sierra Leone, Madam Anna Johnson, expressed thanks and appreciation to Diageo-Guinness Foundation through SLBL Managing Director, for their timely and continuous support to the people of this country, explaining that the money and other items donated will be utilized for their intended purposes as they are aware about the current challenges faced by Medical Practitioners that are involved in the Ebola fight. Brigadier DTO Taluva, joined Madam Johnson in thanking Diageo foundation for their additional support, which according to him is a commitment of their effort in winning the fight against Ebola in the country for the people to return to their normal lives, and promised to inform the NERC Coordinator on his return, about the donation. By Alhaji M. Kamara Friday November 14, 2014

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