SOL’s staff donates over $13,000 to Vincentian charities

Two charities in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) have received donations from SOL, a leading supplier of petroleum-based products and energy solutions in the Caribbean.

SOL made donations of $5,433 to the World Pediatric Project and $7,607 to the Guadalupe Home for Girls.

Parkland Fuels Inc. of Canada, SOL’s owner, as part of its social Investment Programme called “Parkland Pledge” makes donations annually to registered charities. Each employee of SOL can pledge monies to be donated to selected charities. Employees can pledge all their allocation to any one charity or apportion it as they deem fit.

FROM LEFT: Yolande Barbour of SOL presents the cheque to Salene Dopwell of Guadalupe Home For Girls.

Steve Francis, General Manager of SOL in SVG indicated that the charities were chosen due to their outstanding work in the communities that they serve.

Salene Dopwell of Guadalupe Home For Girls, and Lauren Mc Intosh Shallow of the World Pediatric Project, expressed their gratitude to SOL for these contributions which they said would help their organisations to ease their financial burdens.

FROM LEFT: Abigail Govia of SOL presents the cheque to Lauren Shallow of World Pediatric Programme.