28/06/22
In ensuring that lives of the vulnerable members of respective communities get transformed, IK Charitable Trust has continued to donate various items to the said citizens as well as the marginalized.
The organization has also extended its hand of help to inmates with the latest beneficiaries being those from the Livingstone Central Correctional Facility.
To the said facility, IK Charitable Trust has donated 25 mattresses, 30 25-kilogramme bags of breakfast mealie meal, five-20 litre containers of cooking oil and seven bales of blankets.
The organization has also pledged to drill a borehole.
The move has elated the Facility’s officer-in-charge Cornwell Mudenda who said the gesture shows consideration from society that inmates are also human beings like anyone else.
Mudenda said when the organization handed over the said items to the facility that more stakeholders should emulate the gesture to help cushion the many challenges that the ZCS may be encountering.
“This shows how much you care for the inmates and this directly speaks to the President’s call to treat these people as human beings. And this shows how serious you are about following such directives,” he said.
Mudenda also assured the organization that the donated items will benefit the right people at the facility.
And IKCT secretary Mohamed Shuaib Khanat said his organisation had made a similar contribution to the Choma Correctional Facility and also to the communities in the Choma and Livingstone.
Committee member Mohamed Lambat said the muslim community have been taught from a young age to share with the less fortunate in the community and urged inmates not to dispair but rather have confidence.
“Everyone slips every so often but the one who stands up after slipping is the one who will go ahead in life. And whatever you may have done, IK Charitable Trust recognises that as human beings you have the right to proper shelter, food and your basic necessities,” Mr Lambat said.
Speaking at the same event, Livingstone District Commissioner Eunice Nawa commended the organisation for its works across the country.
“We appreciate the works of IK for helping the less privileged in society and indeed creating a brighter tomorrow,” Ms Nawa said.
Wheelchairs, food hampers and bales of adult/children jackets to are among the items the organization donated to Choma and Livingstone Communities.