Pres­tige Hold­ings Lim­it­ed (PHL) will open its third Star­bucks store in En­deav­our Ch­agua­nas at 6.30 am on Mon­day.

Since the mar­ket open­ing in Au­gust, Star­bucks T&T has col­lab­o­rat­ed with Gift for Life Foun­da­tion to as­sist in part­ner­ing with a char­i­ty near each store.

"Star­bucks Trinidad and To­ba­go is pleased to part­ner with the Gift for Life Foun­da­tion. Its mem­bers are com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties to a wide group of chil­dren's char­i­ties across the coun­try," said Charles Pash­ley, CEO Pres­tige Hold­ings Lim­it­ed. "We look for­ward to fur­ther de­vel­op­ing a part­ner­ship with each char­i­ty near our stores in the New Year, and cre­at­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for our baris­tas to con­nect with the com­mu­ni­ty and give back in a mean­ing­ful way."

Star­bucks baris­tas at its San Fer­nan­do lo­ca­tion have con­nect­ed with The Hope Cen­tre Chil­dren's Home with chil­dren from ages 4 to 13 years. The first in­take of baris­tas spent time with the chil­dren in Au­gust and Pres­tige gave a do­na­tion to sup­port the man­age­ment of their build­ing. The South­Park baris­tas re­cent­ly in­vit­ed the chil­dren to an in-store event last month.

Gift for Life mem­ber, Lak­sh­mi Ra­goo­nanan said: "The Gift For Life Foun­da­tion is re­al­ly proud to work with Star­bucks. They have shared our vi­sion of mak­ing a pos­i­tive dif­fer­ence in the lives of chil­dren at homes in our coun­try. Some of the chil­dren are more con­fi­dent and mo­ti­vat­ed and shared their ex­cite­ment af­ter the events so far."

In Port-of-Spain, the Star­bucks Movi­etowne baris­tas re­cent­ly con­nect­ed with The Mar­i­an House for boys be­tween the ages of 13 years to 21 years old.

A spe­cial so­cial event was held for them be­fore the Movi­etowne open­ing.

"We look for­ward to build these re­la­tion­ships in our com­mu­ni­ty and our goal is for our baris­tas to con­tin­u­ous­ly con­nect with the char­i­ties near where they work. This is part of the unique work ex­pe­ri­ence we pro­vide–and one we know our baris­tas val­ue when they join Star­bucks," said Deb­o­rah Ben­jamin, VP of Star­bucks.

From the be­gin­ning, Star­bucks has set out to be a dif­fer­ent kind of com­pa­ny–one that not on­ly cel­e­brates cof­fee and its rich tra­di­tion, but al­so brings a feel­ing of con­nec­tion with­in com­mu­ni­ties.

Through vol­un­teer ef­forts like its an­nu­al Glob­al Month of Ser­vice each April, Star­bucks part­ners (em­ploy­ees) around the world have to­geth­er con­tributed over 1 mil­lion ser­vice hours each year.

This ini­tia­tive in T&T will join a deep lega­cy of com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice across the com­pa­ny, and con­tin­ue to build on the com­pa­ny's mis­sion: to in­spire and nur­ture the hu­man spir­it � one per­son, one cup, and one neigh­bour­hood at a time.

The En­deav­our Ch­agua­nas Star­bucks store will open on Mon­day and baris­tas at that store will con­nect with The Jaya Lak­sh­mi Chil­dren's Home near­by.