THE Board of Trustees of the Guyana Foundation, and numerous volunteers, have extended congratulations to President, Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali; Prime Minister, Mark Phillips; Vice-President, Bharrat Jagdeo and the entire Cabinet.

The Foundation has been working in nine of the 10 regions of Guyana since 2013, bringing charitable assistance, and later, free vocational skills training and mental health counselling through its Sunrise Centre.

The Foundation seeks to empower Guyanese to rebuild their communities, bring fulfillment and well-being to their families, enable them to build relations of trust and friendship among themselves irrespective of race and beliefs.

“We are well aware of the many challenges that face the new government in every sector of management to prepare Guyana for a good future for all. We wish them well.

“Our work has exposed the urgent need for a robust plan to be put in place to educate and skill our population to benefit from the development that must come with our new oil industry. Guyanese living in the diaspora have played a supportive role in our work over the years and in our estimation, they should be called on to make their contributions to their homeland,” the Foundation said in a release.

In battling the scourge of suicide over the years, the Guyana Foundation said it has seen the dire need to provide real opportunities for youth and women throughout the country; the need to improve the conditions and secure the involvement of the Indigenous peoples and the need to allow the elderly population to age with dignity and respect for the contributions they have made.

Members of the Guyana Foundation Board of Trustees are Supriya Singh- Bodden, Che Jian Ping, Johann Insanally; Special Adviser, O’Neil Outar, and Oral Delmore.