ATA raises money for a wheely good cause

THE Anglo Turkish Association of Northern Cyprus (ATA) has donated a wheelchair to the Cyprus Turkish Orthopaedic Disability Association (KTOÖD) in Lefkoşa.

ATA chairman Philip Lloyd handed the wheelchair over to the KTOÖD’s chairman Günay Kibrit, who thanked Mr Lloyd and remarked that he had “lost count of the number of wheelchairs the ATA has given the KTOÖD over the last few years”.

The wheelchair was acquired via the ATA’s blue plastic bottle top collection scheme, with Mr Kibrit going on to say that he “could not thank enough those businesses and individuals who actively support the ATA’s recycling scheme for blue plastic bottle tops”.

Mr Lloyd said that “it is because of the association’s recycling scheme [that] what some people every day just casually thrown away can instead be put to good use . . . whilst also at the same time helping our environment”.

Photo courtesy of the ATA Philip Lloyd presenting the wheelchair to Gunay Kibrit at the KTOÖD offices