The em­ploy­ees of An­gos­tu­ra Ltd have do­nat­ed more than $1 mil­lion to pur­chase food items for the most vul­ner­a­ble who are fi­nan­cial­ly im­pact­ed by the ef­fects of the COVID-19 virus on the econ­o­my.

An­gos­tur’s em­ploy­ees do­nat­ed some of their va­ca­tion days to cre­ate a pool of funds worth over $1 mil­lion

In a re­lease the com­pa­ny said: “The Man­age­ment, Ex­ec­u­tives and Board of Di­rec­tors have al­so fi­nan­cial­ly sup­port­ed the dri­ve. This em­ploy­ee-dri­ven ini­tia­tive saw 341 An­gos­tu­ra em­ploy­ees giv­ing up a to­tal of 1,074 va­ca­tion days, val­ued at $1,000,000.”

Com­ment­ing on why he do­nat­ed his va­ca­tion days, en­gi­neer­ing and main­te­nance su­per­vi­sor, Vic­tor Fran­cis said, “I give be­cause to me it’s the best thing that one can do at a time like this.”

Tech­ni­cal as­sis­tant, Sean C Al­leyne added, “I tru­ly be­lieve that any act or ges­ture of kind­ness and com­pas­sion would go a long way.”

The staff’s gen­eros­i­ty has led to some peo­ple even giv­ing up their en­tire va­ca­tion for the year.

“This says a lot about the An­gos­tu­ra staff and the val­ues of the com­pa­ny which they all live by—to­geth­er­ness, tenac­i­ty, pas­sion and in­tegri­ty. The em­ploy­ees’ ini­tia­tive en­ti­tled, “From Our An­gos­tu­ra Fam­i­ly To Yours” is a gift of their kind­ness to the coun­try. We are ex­treme­ly proud of all our em­ploy­ees for con­cep­tu­al­is­ing this idea and dri­ving this ini­tia­tive with a huge goal in mind,” the re­lease read.

On March 20, An­gos­tu­ra an­nounced that it was em­bark­ing on a do­na­tion dri­ve to pro­duce hand sani­tis­er for first re­spon­ders, com­mu­ni­ties and busi­ness­es with front­line staff.

Since then, the com­pa­ny has giv­en out 70,000 bot­tles of hand sani­tis­er to front lin­ers in­clud­ing po­lice of­fi­cers, prison of­fi­cers, health­care and so­cial de­vel­op­ment work­ers and to its fence-line com­mu­ni­ties in Laven­tille/Mor­vant.

The com­pa­ny said it will con­tin­ue to as­sist those in need dur­ing this un­prece­dent­ed time of un­cer­tain­ty.