Four non-governmental organisations yesterday received a quantity of items valued at $280,000 from the Women’s Club of the Indian Cultural Centre.

Donors and recipients pose with the items yesterday

The items, which included a television set, transistor radios, kitchen utensils, wheelchairs and paint were handed over to the Palms, Dharm Shala, Guyana Relief Council (GRC) and the Kamal Home for Children in Berbice.

Director of the centre, Malti Sahai said that funds raised from a recently held lunch were used to purchase the items which are to meet direct needs of the organisations.

Barbara Walrond who received on behalf of the GRC said that the items are significant to their relief efforts toward persons and families who may have lost their homes and belongings to fire.

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security Trevor Thomas said the donation has satisfied in part the direct needs of the home.

He noted that the wheel chairs would aid the easy movement of inmates while the radios would be treasured by those visually impaired.

The Women’s Club started in 1979 growing out of a foreseen need for women of the Indian High Commission and their Guyanese counterparts to integrate socially and culturally.

What started out as a social and leisure club and  is now an organisation involved in social work.

The women would be visiting the Kamal Home in Berbice soon to present their items to them.