COVID-19: Ibrahim Mahama Donates To Visually Impaired Pensioners, St James Catholic Church

The Chief Executive Officer of Engineers & Planners Limited, Mr. Ibrahim Mahama has donated food items worth millions of Cedis to the visually impaired workers who have gone on retirement.

The items included 100 bags of rice, 720 bottles of cooking oil, 720 cans of mackerel and 720 cans of tomato paste.

The gesture is to supports the visually impaired whose movement and livelihood has been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic because of their inability to move around because of the social distance and other restrictions imposed by the government.

The donation was done on behalf of Mr. Ibrahim Mahama by his aide Rafik Mahama.

Receiving the items, the immediate past President of the Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations (GFDO), Yaw Ofori Debrah thanked the Business magnate for his continuous support to the visually impaired society.

He recounted how Mr. Ibrahim Mahama came to their aide last year when he donated GH¢22,000 to support the welfare of the visually impaired pensioners, stressing that the pandemic has affected the movement of their members and that the donation by Mr. Ibrahim Mahama will help greatly in alleviating the plight of its members.

In a related deployment, Mr. Ibrahim Mahama also made a second donation to St. James Catholic Church at Osu also in Accra. He donated 50 bags of rice, 360 cans of Mackerel, 360 cans of tomato paste and 360 bottles of cooking oil. This is to help the community through the church. The food items will be distributed to the individuals homes by the church. This is done to avoid people crowding at one place in order to receive food items.

The business magnate has made series of donations since the pandemic started in March this year.

He has donated food items to various communities and groups across the country expected to cushion the vulnerable in society at this difficult time.