The Co­terie of So­cial Work­ers re­cent­ly re­ceived a new Bak­ers Pride oven for its Meal Cen­tre, lo­cat­ed on Carib Street, San Fer­nan­do, thanks to the gen­er­ous do­na­tion of Asian en­er­gy com­pa­ny Sa­pu­rak­en­cana Drilling Jaya Ltd (SKD).

In mak­ing the pre­sen­ta­tion, SKD's coun­try man­ag­er, David Chris­tiansen, said his com­pa­ny was very pleased to con­tribute to the Co­terie and to the well-be­ing of fu­ture gen­er­a­tions.

Glo­ria Syms, the act­ing chair­man of the Co­terie's San Fer­nan­do branch, re­spond­ed: "The Co­terie is very grate­ful for the do­na­tion from SKD and this ad­di­tion­al oven will en­sure in­creased ef­fi­cien­cy, qual­i­ty and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty at the Meal Cen­tre and of course, time­ly prepa­ra­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion of meals to the chil­dren of the sur­round­ing schools."

The pre­sen­ta­tion co­in­cid­ed with a cour­tesy call paid by His Ex­cel­len­cy Jaime Al­ber­to Acos­ta Car­va­jal, Am­bas­sador Ex­tra­or­di­nary and Plenipo­ten­tiary for the Re­pub­lic of Colom­bia to T&T, dur­ing which he ex­pressed in­ter­est in the work of the Co­terie and reaf­firmed his will­ing­ness to lend sup­port to the Co­terie's fund-rais­ing projects.

Of par­tic­u­lar in­ter­est to the am­bas­sador is the Co­terie's up­com­ing an­nu­al fund-rais­er themed, A Jazz Brew...Sa­bor de Colom­bia, to be held on Oc­to­ber 29. This event will com­mem­o­rate the Co­terie of So­cial Work­ers' 95th an­niver­sary this year.

Amongst the wel­com­ing par­ty at the oven han­dover was Al­der­man Vidya Mun­gal-Bisses­sar, rep­re­sent­ing the may­or of San Fer­nan­do.