SEVERAL winners were awarded their prizes this week after participating and being selected in the drawing of the Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS) 2014 raffle.

The GRCS, which operates under the motto ‘To improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilising the power of humanity’, presented several winners who took part and won in their annual raffle, which is one of the Red Cross’s major fund-raisers for the year.

This was according to a representative from the GRCS, Anna Lisa Fraser-Phang at the Society’s head office in Barrack Street, Kingston, Georgetown.

Ms. Fraser-Phang noted that the annual raffle is held as a major fund-raiser for the society, so that they can use the funds gained to embark on their three main annual programmes which include the Meals on Wheels programme, the Children’s Convalescent Home programme and their welfare programmes.

The Meals on Wheels programme entails the delivering of a hot meal every day at lunch time to elderly and disabled persons, who are unable to cater for themselves; thus far it involves roughly 100 persons.

Meanwhile, the children’s convalescent home programme involves assistance in any way for all the children who are housed in the home.

Apart from those, the welfare programmes are basically provided for the general public who need the assistance.

She disclosed that the funds raised are just enough to carry out these programmes, but the Society is pushing to raise more funds so that they can widen their outreach programmes, in order that more persons can benefit from the assistance they provide.

Moreover, persons who took part in the raffle won prizes such as, a Blu Cell Phone, a flat screen TV, a Digital Camera, a diamond necklace and many more.

Ms. Fraser-Phang disclosed that the Red Cross Society would like to thank all their sponsors who donated the “spectacular” prizes and she hopes for their continued assistance and support in any event, outreach programmes or fund- raisers which the Society may hold.