COMPANY ASSIST REMAR FOUNDATION, DAILY GRAPHIC, SAT 6 FEB, 10 (PAGE 18)

MULTI PRO Private Limited, distributors of Indomie Instant Noodles has donated assorted items valued at GHC750 to inmates of the Remar Foundation located in Tema.
The items made up of 50 cartons of Indomie noodles, 400 sets of note one exercise books, crayons, pens and pencils.
Presenting the items, Assistant Sales and marketing Manager of the company, Mr Frederick Kwesi Martinson indicated, his outfit as part of its efforts to reach to institutions and organisations making strides to reduce all forms of destitution, saw the need to reach out to the foundation.
Mr Martinson noted, running a foundation in our part of the world could be a tiresome mission; hence the need for corporate bodies that are making strides to bring sanity to society.
‘For us as an institution, we deemed it necessary to shift away from the culture of profit making once in a while and reached out to the less privileged in the community we operates in’, Mr Martinson remarked.
The Public Relations Manager of the foundation, Mr Joshua Mamphey, who received the items on behalf of the center, expressed profound appreciation to the company for the gesture.
According to him, the foundation is a non profit charitable organisation serves as a correctional facility for children rescued from the streets across various metropolises in the country.
Mr Mamphey noted, the foundation which was incorporated in the country over a decade ago has no permanent structure that houses inmates, a situation he describes having a toll on the centre’s meagre resources and appeal to corporate bodies and well meaning Ghanaians to help the foundation acquire a permanent facility for total reformation of inmates.
Remar foundation founded in 1982 in Spain by Miguel Biez, a philanthropist and a businessman has over the years provided humanitarian assistance to the most needy, abandoned children as well as persons orphaned by HIV and AIDs.
The foundation since its establishment apart from providing support for the above mentioned group has contributed massively towards the education young people who miss out on education owing to poverty.
It which currently has centers in over fifty three different countries worldwide has also been providing assistance to many prisoners across their country of operation.