By Lamin Njie
Karpowership on Friday donated rice and sugar to the Fatoumatta Bah Barrow Foundation to support the foundation in fulfilling its mandate to Gambians.
The donation comes at a back of a similar gesture on Thursday where the power company put smiles on the faces of at least 200 Gambian families by giving them rice and sugar on the occasion of Ramadan.
On Friday, the company gave the Fatoumatta Bah Barrow Foundation 100 bags of rice and 100 bags of sugar at a ceremony held at State House.
Speaking at the event, the country manager of Karpowership Yankuba Mamburay said the gesture was aimed at supporting the First Lady through her foundation in helping Gambians.
“Karpowership is a Turkish company. We are engaged in electricity production. Currently we have fleet of powerships around the globe that is giving out some 3100 MW of electricity and Gambia inclusive as far as that number is concerned,” Mamburay said.
He added: “We came into The Gambia and our powership Karadeniz Koray Bey powership got connected to the Gambian national grid sometime around early 2018 as a result of the power purchase agreement that was signed between Nawec and Karpowership in February 2018.
“We have donated food items to 200 families yesterday. It was a very busy day. And a couple of weeks ago, we donated to some orphanages, some food items too. Some time last year during Ramadan, a similar gesture was made.
“And we were also involved in the rehabilitation of the children’s hospital to ensure that where water supply was not getting into, they got water supply. We spent about 6000 dollars towards that. We have a lot of plans as far as supporting the communities and helping in the development of the country.”
The vice chairperson of Fatoumatta Bah Barrow Foundation Fatou Ceesay on her part said the gesture will go ‘very far’ in complementing the First Lady’s efforts in helping Gambians.
“In the last two years, the foundation and our chief patron we would engage in this month of Ramadan in supporting mainly the most vulnerable of the community which includes some of the quranic recitation centres like Daras around the country. So we thank you very much,” Ceesay said.
