Distribution of clothing last week at Zeelust, West Coast Berbice by the local charity, ‘God’s Creation I Am’. (Photo by Clifford Stanley)

MEMBERS OF a New York-based organisation of Guyanese called ‘God’s Creation I Am’ last week distributed gifts of food, clothing and footwear and agricultural planting materials to over 250 needy persons in Berbice and on the West Coast Demerara.

Those who benefitted were from Mon Choisi, Edderton and Zeelust Villages on the West Coast Berbice, and from Zeelugt on the West Coast Demerara.

The gifts were distributed by founder/leader of the organisation, Ms Jeanette Gomes, a social worker in the USA; her colleagues, Mr Sean Haley, Vice-President, Operations; Pastor James Watts, Spiritual Consultant; and Pastor Sean McDonald of the local branch of the Family Tabernacle of Worship at Zeelust.

The gifts were obtained from New York-based members of the organisation, and from local charitable sources.

The overseas-based Guyanese are all members of the Family Tabernacle of Worship in Queens, New York, and the largesse was in keeping with the organisations’ policy of combining faith and works and promoting self reliance, Ms Gomes said.