The Guyana Islamic Trust (GIT) on Sunday distributed 750 hampers costing around $2M to severed Rose Hall Estate sugar workers.
Wazir Baksh, member of the executive committee stated that after the retrenchment of sugar workers at the Canje estate, the organization met with persons there who explained that they anticipated that around March they would need assistance with food items.
“We came in and reached with the people and looked at long-term and short-term assistance”, he said.
He noted that on Sunday