Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka, and employees of Airtel and KenGen are among the latest individuals to contribute to the coronavirus fund initiative.Airtel employees donated Sh12.7 million, while the Kalonzo Musyoka Foundation gave Sh3 million to the Covid-19 Emergency Response Fund. MrMusyoka asked the response team to think of post-Covid-19 recovery strategies, as well as better solutions to such calamities in the future. Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) on Wednesday handed over its donation to the fund. While receiving the donations, fund chairperson Jane Karuku said so far the fund has received a total of Sh2.6 billion from well-wishers, and encouraged other corporates to donate to the fight against the deadly virus. So far, the fund has raised Sh2,149,218,950 in cash and Sh505,836,250 in food and non-food items.

Source: Standard Digital May 01, 2020 11:26 UTC