The Ruparelia Foundation has heeded to President Yoweri Museveni’s call to have top businessmen and industries donate four-wheel drive vehicles towards the fight against the global Covid-19 pandemic.
“We have 135 districts and each district needs at least two vehicles. We also have more than 5,000 industries in this country. If each of them donated a brand-new four-wheel drive vehicle, we would even have excess,” Museveni said while addressing the nation last night.
The Ruparelia Foundation, the charity arm of Ruparelia Group, headed by tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia has heeded to the call and donated not one but two brand-new four-wheel drives.
The cars donated are of Tata Xenon XLT model made by Indian car manufacturing giant Tata Motors. The come with a 3.0 litre diesel engine and 3100 metre wheel base.
Earlier, the Ruparelia Group had donated food to 5,000 families around Kampala.
Uganda has currently registered 48 covid-19 cases and no deaths. The country is now serving a 14 day lock down and 7pm to 6.30am curfew to avert the diseases that has infected over a million people worldwide and claimed over 50,000 lives.