CM assures to help NGOs working for street children

CM assures to help NGOs working for street children
HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, JAN 8
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Saturday assured all out government support and assistance to NGOs working for the protection and welfare of street children in the state.
He was addressing a function organized by NGO El Shaddai street child rescue after launching a school bus donated by Moulana Ibrahim of Quality Food and Quality Exports at the Ravindra bhavan, Margao.
Saying that the children are the future pillars of the country, the Chief Minster underlined the need to groom the children in a conducive environment to ensure they don’t go astray. “The country is progressing at a fast pace, but it is sad that the gap between the rich and the poor is also growing”, he said, while complimenting NGOs working with street children and special children in the state.
In his address, Moulana Ibrahim of Quality Foods suggested to the Chief Minister to grant 100 percent income tax exemption to businessmen donating for charities. “The government should explore the possibility of exempting the entire donations from Income Tax”, he said.
Saying that El Shaddai Charitable Trust is doing noble job for providing shelter for the homeless, health facilities and education for orphans, street children and children coming from underprivileged sections, Ibrahim appealed to the gathering to donate generously to the noble cause of El Shaddai Charitable Trust and help them expand its wings to the nook and corner of the state and country.
“It is said that poverty is the parent of revolution and terrorism. If orphans and street children are left alone on the streets without care and love today, they would get into antisocial activities and become antisocial elements of tomorrow”, Ibrahim said.
Incidentally, Ibrahim had donated a van to El Shaddai charitable trust last year and has donated a Tata Winger to be used by the NGO as a school bus for the street children.
Margao Municipal Chairperson Sushila Naik also spoke, while co-founder of El Shaddai Charitable Trust Mathew Kurian also addressed the gathering.