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Demerara Bank gives back to Dharm Shala
The Dharm Shala at Fort Canje, Berbice, recently benefitted from a tangible
Demerara Bank Staff members and Caretaker of the Dharm Shala, Berbice with the donated items.
donation of several items from the Demerara Bank, Rose Hall Town Branch. The handing-over ceremony took place at the facility for the aged and less fortunate, located under the Canje River Bridge.
Among the items donated were cleaning agents, bed-nets, pillows and cases, bed sheets and a wide variety of groceries and food items.
Speaking at the handing over, Branch Manager of Demerara Bank, Rose Hall Town, Ms. Elaine Dawson, stated that the gesture is an annual one that sees the bank venturing out of Rose Hall to the Dharm Shala to donate groceries and cleaning agents, mosquito nets, bed sheets, pillows and casings.
“We wanted to complete it before our 2013-2014 financial year, and we would want to take this opportunity to thank all our customers and supporters out there,” she stated.
Dawson added that the response by the Dharm Shala was “very positive. You could have seen the appreciation, and I think they are very happy and very content and appreciative of what Demerara Bank did, because they depend on charity as a whole to meet their basic needs.”
The Branch Manager encouraged other corporate entities to emulate the bank “to see the need of the less fortunate, or wherever they exist.” A little can go a far way, she noted, “be it whatever it is, they would appreciate it.”
On Saturday, the bank plans to be involved in the filling of the playground area of the Rose Hall Town Primary School, “because they suffer badly when it is raining. The staff would go out and do the manual labour with the teachers and parents— we will be supplying the sand to get the compound ready for any rainy weather.”
Caretaker of the Dharm Shala, Mark Adams, received the gifts and expressed thanks.
“These gifts are what our lives is sustained from and this home is existing strictly on charity and so we are very thankful,” he added.
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