Total Donates Food Items To Charity

Total Exploration and Production Limited last week delivered food items worth thousands of Naira to the inmates of some charity homes in Port Harcourt and its environs to mark the Easter celebration.

The beneficiaries include the Home for the Elderly, the Child Special, the Pour of Love Crucified, Akpajo and the Global Foundation for Orphaned Children, Rumuokwuta.

Making the donations to the various organisations, the Public Relations Manager of the firm, Mr. Ikwuazom Norbert explained that identifying with the less-privileged was part of the company.

“Charity is part and parcel of our company and it is built in its corporate social responsibility policy,” Norbert said.

He enjoined the government, corporate organisations and well-meaning individuals in the society to assist the less-privileged by supporting those who run the homes since according to him, they are faced with enormous challenges.

At the Global Foundation for Orphaned Children, Mr. Cliff Yarrell thanked Total E and P for the kind gesture, saying that the company was in the vanguard of charity work in Rivers State.

He said the organisation is being faced with the problem of accommodation while the Matron of the Home for the Elderly, Rev. Sister Jane Raphael applauded the firm and noted that the difficulty facing them among others was the inability to pay their staff.

Sister Chika Mariah of the Pour of Love Crucified also expressed gratitude to the company but decried the attitude of some Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) running charity homes who have turned it to a business thereby discouraging most well-meaning Nigerians from making donations to the real ones.

Listing some of the problems facing the home as lack of vehicles to facilitate its activities, absence of electricity and inadequate baby foods, Mariah reminded such organisations of their call to duty by God despite the odds.

Vivian-Peace Nwinaene