125 food hampers distributed to Essequibo Coast residents

The Jay & Sylvia Sobhraj Foundation, through Sergeant Gladwin Hanover of the Police Training School and Neil Sukhlall of Impressions, distributed 125 food hampers to the less fortunate persons across the Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam).

The distribution exercise was conducted on Monday and targeted the communities of Sandpit and Red Village.
The hampers included food items such as rice, salt, potatoes, oil, as well as other necessities like toilet paper.
Sergeant Hanover, who was the recently awarded Best Cop, told Guyana Times that he decided to embark on this initiative following a conversation with a friend.
“She [the friend] said that she met with her neighbour’s daughter and the daughter seemed hungry and my friend was having lunch. So, she called the child and gave the child a plate of food, halfway through the food, the child asked my friend if it is okay for her to take the other half for her brother at home,” Hanover explained.
He noted, however, that it was more than the child’s brother who ended up eating the remaining food.
“So right away, I thought of all the other persons that cannot take care of themselves, or provide for themselves and their families,” he noted.
With this in mind, Hanover submitted a proposal to the Jay & Sylvia Subhraj Foundation for this initiative. It initially intended to target 100 homes, but according to the Police Officer, the Foundation was “generous enough to add 25 additional hampers”.
Going forward, Sergeant Hanover said he is working to determine how best the hamper drive can be continuous as well as to explore other ways in which other vulnerable groups in the region can be assisted.