JK donates Xmas gifts to orphans and elders

BY GADIOSA LAMTEY

25th December 2013

Public Service Pensions Fund official Mohamed Madenge hands over President Jakaya`s Christmas present of three goats, rice and cooking oil to Msimbazi Orphanage deputy in charge, Sister Maria Silvana.

President Jakaya Kikwete has donated Christmas gifts to at least 17 orphanages and homes for elderly people in Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar other parts of the country.

The Commissioner of Social Welfare in the Health and Social Welfare ministry, Beatrice Fungamo, presented the gifts on behalf of the President in Dar es Salaam yesterday.
Speaking to representatives of the centres shortly after, she said the gifts are meant to make the children and the elderly happy during Christmas.

The gifts included goats, rice and cooking oil whose value was not revealed.

The centres that received them include Tabata orphanage, Kurasini, Msimbazi, Chamanzi, Kwetu Mbagala, and Chakuwama, Mburahati, Vosa, Tuwapende watoto, and old people at Msimbazi, Dar es Salaam.

In Zanzibar the centres include Mabaoni, Unguja centre of Welezo and Kilimanjaro region children prison,  Sukamale Singida, Mwanza residence for old people, Bukumbi and centre for old people at Msufini, Muheza.

Meanwhile, the management of Giraffe Hotel yesterday gave Christmas presents to orphans at Tupendane centre.

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN