Cocoon Investments and its business partners, Sri Lanka-based Akbar Brothers, and Maldivian business partner Bison Maldives, has donated protective gear to help the Maldives fight the coronavirus outbreak. The donation includes Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits, face masks and sanitizer.
“On behalf of BISON Group, the Management of COCOON Resorts and Akbar Brothers, we are delighted to gift a consignment of PPE comprising of face masks, sanitisers and hazmat suits to Maldives,” reads a statement by Bison group on social media. Bison is active in a wide range of businesses ranging from building construction, aluminium and glass fabrication and hardware retail to fashion and travel & hotel operations.
On 11th May, Cocoon Investments chairman Asgi Akbarally, who also serves on the board of Akbar Brothers, handed over the donation to Omar Abdul Razzaq, the Maldivian ambassador in Sri Lanka. The company has two resorts in the Maldives: the 150-villa Cocoon Maldives, located in the northern Lhaviyani atoll; and the adults-only, 109-villa You & Me by Cocoon Maldives in the northern Raa atoll.