A Kenyan man who lost his three children, his wife and mother-in-law in the Ethiopian plane crash in 2019 has donated $446,000 (Sh48.9 million) to charity in the Pacific island nation of Bermuda.
Paul Njoroge, a Kenyan by birth who worked at the Bank of Butterfield in Bermuda, teamed up with Jumuiya Ya Afrika, a charity set up to promote African culture and heritage in Bermuda, to organise the gifting, according to the Royal Gazette, a Bermudian publication.
Njoroge said the donation was a gesture of love and appreciation for the overwhelming support he got after the accident.
“When I lost my family, there was an immediate outpouring of support to me, much from people I did not even know. Those messages of hope gave me strength. It is a sign of love and with that same spirit, in the name of my beloved departed family, I asked that this donation be made,” he said as quoted by the Royal Gazette.
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