Fri 23 June 2023:
A R3 million fuel boost has been presented to the humanitarian organization Gift of the Givers to help with its relief supply activities, EWN reported.
Engen Petroleum gave the disaster response organization further fuel help on Friday.
The company has now provided R11.5 million in fuel support overall since 2019.
#GiftOfTheGivers Disaster relief organisation, Gift of the Givers, has been given a R3 million fuel donation. KB pic.twitter.com/izWklX8p5n
— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) June 23, 2023
Doctor Imtiaz Sooliman, the founder of the nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid, claimed that Engen Petroleum’s fuel donations had aided their relief operations, notably during the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak.
“We were moving food parcels, we were moving PPE, we have additional vehicles on the road from Ford and Isuzu, we put our own trucks on the road…at that time of level five lockdown, very few people could actually move around.”
Sooliman emphasised that the organisation had to date spent around R15 million on relief aid for Western Cape flood victims.
“We got to 53 areas in 14 days and they flew the helicopters, we loaded the helicopters, the trucks and the boats and when everybody just take the labels off you find that there’s so much you can do together.”
According to Sooliman, Engen’s most recent fuel donation will help them lower their transportation costs and make it possible for humanitarian workers to reach the thousands of individuals who have been displaced by the most recent floods in the Western Cape.
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