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Friday, May 2, 2025

CARe honours youth at sports day

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The Com­mu­ni­ty Ac­tion Re­source (CARe) held its an­nu­al sports and fam­i­ly day on Au­gust 3, at the Re­pub­lic Bank Sports Fa­cil­i­ty Grounds, Barataria. CARe is an NGO, a sup­port­ive and ad­vo­ca­cy group, which sup­ports peo­ple who are af­fect­ed by the Aids virus. It is the old­est or­gan­i­sa­tion which was brought about 22 years ago, ac­cord­ing to Kirk Lang­ton, Chair­man of CARe. Spe­cial­ly in­vit­ed guests in­clud­ed Min­is­ter of Health Dr Fuad Khan; Min­istry of Health in­ter­nal com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er Denise Scott, and stake­hold­ers of Red Cross, UN­Aids, to name a few.

Min­is­ter Khan made his re­marks on of­fer­ing his ser­vices and as­sis­tance to CARe. This was com­mu­ni­cat­ed to mem­bers Lang­ton, Joshua Whar­wood, sec­re­tary of the board and David Soomarie, Co­or­di­na­tor of Pro­grammes. Chil­dren from the Cyril Ross Home, sup­port­ed by Miss Uni­verse 1998 Wendy Fitzwilliam, par­tic­i­pat­ed in the ac­tiv­i­ties of the day. Ac­tiv­i­ties in­clud­ed the 50 and 100 me­tre races, walk and wine race, bal­loon race, skip­ping re­lays, as well as oth­er phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties. Soomarie stat­ed that this event, "pro­vides a so­cial av­enue for fun and re­lax­ation." It is an op­por­tu­ni­ty for sup­port of each oth­er, who shares the same po­si­tion.

Sup­port­ers of the event in­clud­ed Re­pub­lic Bank which pro­vid­ed the fa­cil­i­ty; Nigel R Khan Book­sellers which con­tributed prizes for the sec­ond year; SM Jaleel with the spon­sor­ship of Chub­by, Fru­ta and Oa­sis drinks. CARe mem­bers pre­pared and pre­sent­ed their dish­es for shar­ing at this event. Lang­ton claims that chil­dren with Aids are oc­ca­sion­al­ly stig­ma­tised, be­cause of their po­si­tion with the virus. He added that these chil­dren at­tend sev­er­al pub­lic schools where their con­di­tion is kept in con­fi­dence to pre­vent dis­crim­i­na­tion against them. Lang­ton be­lieves that the chil­dren's im­age must be pro­tect­ed and peo­ple should be more ac­cept­ing and sup­port­ive of them. This an­nu­al cel­e­bra­tion is ded­i­cat­ed in recog­ni­tion of these spe­cial youths, who are de­serv­ing of ac­cep­tance and recog­ni­tion, which CARe in­tends to con­tin­ue sup­port­ing.

CARe is an NGO, a sup­port­ive and ad­vo­ca­cy group, which sup­ports peo­ple who are af­fect­ed by the Aids virus. It is the old­est or­gan­i­sa­tion which was brought about 22 years ago, ac­cord­ing to Kirk Lang­ton, Chair­man of CARe.


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