Mercury International Staff and Retailers Charitable Foundation has on Tuesday, 1st August 2025, donated food items to residents, customers and non-customers at the Portee Community, East End of Freetown.
Among the donated food items were bags of rice, bags of onions, 4 gallons of cooking oil, Ovaltine, 4 cartons of Sardines, Cartons of Cow Bell powdered milk, 2 bags of salt, 1 Carton of Jumbo Maggi, and several other items.

Presenting the items on behalf of the Staff and Retailer Foundation, Yanshim Ibrahim Yansaneh, a staff member from the PR Department, said the gesture is not a new thing for the Foundation, and it is now a usual gesture for the Foundation to share goodies with vulnerable people in different communities.

He said: “We are making such a donation today because it is the Staff and Retailers whose contributions from our salaries and retailers’ commission we can secure funds to buy these items. Today we are at Porotee, your community is not the first to receive such a donation, we’ve been doing this for several other communities, the less privileged homes, the physically challenged and more. With God being our helper, we will continue to do more,” Yanshim said and encouraged them to play and be part of Mercury games before sending a warning message that only those above the age of 18 years should be allowed to be around Mercury International Red Box.

Receiving the food items on behalf of the people, Ishmael Sesay thanked Mercury for thinking about Portee for such a goodwill gesture. He assured the company of their continued support and affirmed that the items donated would be utilized and all those who should benefit from it would benefit.

Ishmeal said Mercury International is and will remain their Number one betting company in Sierra Leone.
In November 2020, the Managing Director of Mercury International Company Limited, Mr Martin E Michael, brought together representatives of the staff and retailers to set up a charitable foundation managed and organised by the staff and retailers without interference from Management or the Board of Directors.

The aim was to create a platform for the staff and retailers to firstly learn about the importance of corporate social responsibility and secondly, for them to give back to their communities and society. The project kicked off in December 2020, and the first donation by the foundation was made on Thursday, the 21st of January 2021, by donating food items worth 10 million Leones to the King George’s Home, Grafton.

Sarah Koroma, a young female student from Kabala, joined the toll of students who have become lucky winners of Mercury International Sports betting and lottery products last Thursday.
Sarah, who has been an avid player of the Mercury International virtual and online games over the past two years, received a key to the Tricycle Kekeh, which was the star prize of the Mercury International online Easter Vegas promotion.
Madam Koroma who is also an entrepreneur, expressed her excitement about the winning, saying, “I am so grateful for this win, as I wasn’t expecting this. Honestly, I am speechless.”
The ambitious young lady also promised that the Kekeh will be definitely used to further support her education and business.
Presenting the prizes to lucky winners at the company’s headquarters, Krootown Road, Freetown, Managing Director, Martin Michael, congratulated all the winners and thanked them for being loyal customers of Mercury International.
He encouraged other Mercury International customers to take advantage of any promotion the Company offers.
Deputy Online Manager, Octavious Jackson said Easter Vegas Promotion started from February 1 and ended on April 13 2025 and it was introduced to give opportunity to customers who are playing the Mercury International virtual games, the casino and other online games of the Company.
He further revealed that aside from Kekeh, the second prize winner rode away with a Motor Bike and Helmet, while the third prize winner collected a motorbike.
A young petty trader, Bockarie Bangalie, was one of the five winners of the Samsung A05 series mobile phones, while over 250 customers won other prizes, including free online vouchers.

The Easter Vegas promotion came just few months after Mercury International handed over a brand-new Suzuki car to Sorie Mansaray, the grand prize winner of the company’s “Start of Season Raffle Draw” in January, 2025.

A Sierra Leonean scrap metal hurdler, Idrissa Kamara, who lives in Freetown, has beaten the odds and won NLe 250,000 from the Nap 5+ in the Mercury Kakau Mid-day lottery draw.
38-year-old Kamara placed a little sum of Nle 50 as a stake on five numbers 24-42-14-41-65, which provided the winning that saw him walk away with a bumpy sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Million Old Leones.
The lucky Kamara admitted that his win came as a surprise, and it was his first ever biggest win in Mercury lottery games.
” It is a dream come true for me, and I felt so happy, for what I consider to be a victory,” he said, adding that the reality in the game is unchallenged.
“This is a game someone should never give up on, and I advise everyone to play responsibly and be consistent,”.
Kamara vowed to utilise the winnings in a better and reasonable way by developing his plot of land and utilising some of the funds towards his business.
In October 2024, one Mohamed Mansaray won NLe 390,000 from the Nap 4+ and Daily Mercury lottery draw.
Mansaray participated in two different draws. In the Nap 4+ draw, he placed a bet of NLe 20 and won NLe 300,000. In the daily draw, he bet NLe 10 and won NLe 90,000. His total winnings amounted to an impressive NLe 390,000.