The International Development and Relief Foundation [IDRF] is pleased to announce that from today Winston Kassim, C.M., Chair of IDRF Global Monitoring, will travel to Guyana to examine IDRF projects that help vulnerable Guyanese people who are supported by Canadian donors.
Winston Kassim, IDRF Chair.
Kassim is being accompanied by IDRF Program Director, Nabil Ali. “On behalf of IDRF, I am delighted to be visiting our projects in Guyana,” said Kassim. “These have received extensive donations from our caring communities in Canada as well as support from philanthropists in Guyana. We are pleased to announce that we have contributed $200,000 [CAD] to our Guyana projects, with an additional $100,000 [CAD] planned in the near future.”
During his visit to partner organization, Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) today Kassim will spend time with some of the orphans and poor children who are obtaining free schooling and meals through IDRF’s Education Program.
He will also meet with widows and indigent elderly women who are receiving aid through the organization’s Welfare program. On another key tour of IDRF’s Health program which is in association with the Doobay Medical and Research Centre at Annandale, Her Excellency, Mrs. Sandra Granger, The First Lady of Guyana, is slated to join Kassim at 10.00 a.m. on tomorrow at the Doobay Medical Centre.
They will tour the Centre, which is under expansion, courtesy of local philanthropists, and will meet with some of the underprivileged beneficiaries who receive free dialysis, which is helping to give them a longer lease on their lives.