–Treats city’s homeless to lunch

MANY homeless and less fortunate persons around Georgetown were yesterday fed by vibrant and passionate youths from a newly-formed non-governmental charitable organization, ‘Dream For Today Foundation’.

The organisation has been formed with the aim of reducing poverty and making a valuable contribution to communities. Its feeding activity commenced around Guyana Stores Ltd and then proceeded to Bourda Market, before concluding at the Burnham Court in the vicinity of the Promenade Gardens.

This marks the third such activity the group has undertaken since its formation. Prior to yesterday’s event, the organization held fundraisisers to facilitate its intended feeding activity.

Members of the NGO offered approximately 100 recipients from all the mentioned areas an ideal one-course meal in an initiative that was part of the group’s set objective – feeding the less fortunate as the NGO’s prime mission. Many recipients awoke to the call to uplift a box of food for lunch, and expressed abundant thanks for the NGO’s generosity.

Mario Glasgow, who has a driving passion for poverty, provided a welcoming comment to the Guyana Chronicle: “Often, people pick anything that would have minor significance and present (it) to the homeless. We “Dreamers” wish to incorporate affection as we prepare and deliver these meals to them. They must be able to feel a sense of warmth and love in the end. That is what we wish for in return.”

Apart from the ‘feed’ mission, the group has donated clothes to orphanages and other institutions. It is nearing one year into its existence with a commendable mission to provide voluntary services and necessities to the less fortunate in Georgetown, and to the orphanages that are in dire need of basic supplies and other amenities.

Members of that NGO take seriously this admonition from the venerable Mahatma Gandhi: “You must be the change you wish to see in the world”.

(By Shivanie Sugrim)