By Iddi Yire, GNA
Accra, March 10, GNA - The Melcom Care Foundation, the charity wing of the Melcom Group of Companies, on Friday donated an amount of GH?3,000.00 to the Graphic Needy Fund.
The donation is towards the cost of an eye surgery of a three-year old girl, Latifa Karim of Zoosali, a village in the Savelugu-Nanton Municipality of the Northern Region.
The Thursday, March 2, 2017 edition of the Daily Graphic carried an appeal item on Latifa Karim's plight.
She is suffering from cancer of the eye and would need about GH?10,000.00.
Mr Godwin Avenorgbo, the Director of Communications, Melcom Group of Companies, speaking during the donation in Accra, noted that the Chairman of the Melcom Group of Companies, Mr Bhagwan Khubchandani was struck with deep sorrow, when his attention was drawn to the publication.
"We are therefore, happy to make a contribution of GH?3,000.00 to the Graphic Needy Fund in aid of the medical bills of three-year old Latifa Karim," the Communications Director stated.
Present at the event was Mrs Soniya Sadhwani, the Director of Brand Management, Melcom Group of Companies.
Ms Mavis Kyerewaa Boateng, Senior Corporate Affairs Officer, Graphic Communications Group Limited, expressed her gratitude to Melcom Group of Companies for supporting Latifa Karim.
She also appealed to philanthropists, banks, corporate entities to come to the aid of Latifa Karim.
GNA
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