Beacon Foundation gets $1M donation to support care for cancer patients
Beacon Foundation Limited has received a donation of $1,070,000 from the Seaboard Overseas Trading Group through local subsidiary National Milling Company of Guyana (NAMILCO), which it says will assist the foundation with the long-term support of cancer patients and their families.
According to a press release from the Foundation, the donation was made in keeping with this year’s breast cancer awareness month theme RISE—Rally In Support, Serving and Screening Everyone—and it is grateful for the “charitable contribution.”
The Foundation said that along with NAMILCO, it “encourages everyone to continue to show their support for the courageous men, women and children who have been diagnosed with cancer and to honour those who have lost their battle to this disease.”
The release said that the foundation is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization, which has been offering domiciliary palliative care for cancer patients across Guyana free of cost since 1986.
The donation was handed over by the Managing Director of NAMILCO Bert Sukhai.
The release said that the Seaboard Overseas Trading Group lists among its missions the promotion of health, education of children, empowerment of women, assisting with programmes dedicated to improving public health, eliminating hunger, promoting nutrition, developing sustainable agriculture and providing funding for other worthy causes.
It said, too, that the Company has been making annual donations to worthy causes in Guyana over the past decade through its local subsidiary, while noting that organizations which have benefitted include Bal Nivas, the Dharm Shala, Ptolemy Reid Center and the Doobay Medical Clinic.