The Humanitarian Mission Guyana Inc in partnership with its donors has recently made two separate donations to victims of the recent fire in Port Mourant, Corentyne, and to female victim of domestic violence, also from the Corentyne.
The mission yesterday handed over $50,000 worth of school items and $11,000 in groceries to a Port Mourant family whose home was destroyed in a fire two Fridays ago. The fire, suspected to be of electrical origin, left Angela Doman, her three daughters, niece, brother and mother without a home of their own.
Suresh Sugrim, President of the Humanitarian Mission Guyana Inc, stated that the mission valued education and therefore saw the need to donate items to ensure the four children return to school at the earliest. “Education is power,” Sugrim said yesterday.
Late last month, the Mission also donated $45,000 in food and items to a pregnant woman, of Corriverton, who was badly beaten by her husband, who has since been charged and remanded to prison.
“Battered women have no one and nowhere to turn to. The institutions fail them most of the time. She 21 years old and 8 months pregnant and was brutalised by her husband, after a few months down the road the organisation will teach her a trade where she can provide for herself and kids,” Sugrim noted.
“Domestic violence being a major issue in Guyana shows that too many women are uneducated, underprivileged and unemployed, causing the major issue that is tearing the women of this country apart and bringing down them and their generations to come. We need to be a part of that change and help those women in need who are also wanting to help themselves,” he added.
He also called on the authorities to take reports of domestic violence seriously and handle the cases swiftly before they escalate.
