Orange Sierra Leone has on Tuesday June 16, 2020, collaborated with Sierra Leone Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (SLCCIA) and fed 100 quarantined homes within the country with food items such as rice, onions, Maggie and cooking oil.
The feeding of the homes was in response to the call of SLCCIA who had requested for institutions in the private sector to help feed people in quarantine homes.
While handing over the donation to the Chamber, the Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility of Orange-SL, Desmond Spane, said that Sierra Leone Chamber of Commerce Industry and Agriculture called them and asked whether Orange Sierra Leone would support them with food items so that they could give to people that were in different quarantined homes. “That is why today we have come with One Hundred Bags of Rice, 100 gallons of Cooking Oil, 100 boxes of Maggie, and 100 bags of Onions.” Spane committed the company’s commitment to fighting the Coronavirus in Sierra Leone.
While receiving the donated items, the Chief Executive Officer of SLCCIA, James Koroma, said that the entire world needs and Sierra Leone also need great support as it continues to record new Coronavirus cases, after recording its first case in March 31, 2020.
He added that government is trying its best, but the private sector needs to do more to compliment government’s effort in the fight against the Coronavirus.
“We don’t have the resources to do, but with what we have from Orange we will use well in distributing to the intended beneficiaries.”
By Desmond Tunde Coker
18/6/2020. ISSUE NO.: 7848