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Khalife Cheikh Ibrahima Diallo offers donations to detainees

By , based on Dakaractu

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Khalife Cheikh Ibrahima Diallo, successor to the late Cheikh Mouhidine Samba Diallo, led the Tisbar prayer at the Kaolack detention facility on Friday before offering food to detainees. He then gave the Bongré nursery in Kaolack nappies, milk, cleaning products, medicines and a sum of money, a gesture praised by its director, according to Dakaractu.

Khalife Cheikh Ibrahima Diallo, who carries on the work of his father, Cheikh Mouhidine Samba Diallo, visited the Kaolack detention and correctional facility in Senegal on Friday. There he led the prayer and then offered detainees donations made up mainly of food, according to Dakaractu.

The khalife then made a donation to the Bongré nursery in Kaolack, which currently cares for 28 children aged 0 to 2. The donations include nappies, milk, cleaning products, cold medicine and a substantial sum of money.

The nursery’s director, Fama Ndiaye Diaw, welcomed the gesture and asked local authorities and donors to provide the nursery with premises.

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