Banks DIH Ltd recently presented a cheque valued $600,000 to the Rotary Club of Georgetown Central to assist with the operational costs of its mobile dental health care bus which serves school children.
In presenting the cheque to President of the Club Gail Robinson, Banks Chairman Clifford Reis said his company is extremely pleased to support the work of the Rotary Club. He lauded the Rotarians for providing free dental care to school children along the lower East Coast, East Bank, West Coast and West Bank Demerara.
“I commend your effort and look forward to your continued humanitarian service to the Guyanese community,” Reis said. According to a press release the Club had been providing this service for the past 12 years.
In response, Robinson said the donation will be used to offset the mobile unit’s operational costs. She noted that the programme has served over 100,000 school children since it started in 1998. “Among the services provided by the mobile unit are fillings, restoration and root canals and prophylaxis. It is staffed with personnel from the Cheddi Jagan Dental School and works in conjunction with the national programme for dental health care in schools,” Robinson said.
The Rotary Dental Unit is the flagship project of the Guyana initiative, an association formed between the Rotary Club of Georgetown Central and the Rotary Club of South Richmond in the US. The release said Banks Human Resources Director Andrew Carto, Rotary past district governor Dunstan Barrow, past president Mike Davis and secretary Orville Davis also attended the ceremony.
