The at­mos­phere is not on­ly filled with the beau­ti­ful fresh breeze of the moun­tains but one that ex­udes pure love, kind­ness and gen­eros­i­ty. Fair­winds is a home away from home. The amaz­ing sto­ry of founder An­gela Ar­nasalam, a re­lease from blink-bmo­bile said, ex­plains her pas­sion for this non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion and her de­sire to help give chil­dren a start in life, a de­sire that blink-bmo­bile com­pa­ny ap­pre­ci­ates and is pleased to sup­port.

"I have al­ways want­ed to give back be­cause that's all I know. My moth­er was al­ways giv­ing back and help­ing peo­ple. Our house al­ways had some­one stay­ing there. Plus all that I have was giv­en to me. I have been blessed to bless oth­ers," said Ar­nasalam.

Lo­cat­ed in the hills of Ma­son Hall, this breezy sanc­tu­ary nes­tled amongst fruit trees was named Fair­winds by own­er Ar­nasalam. Ten years ago it al­so be­came the of­fi­cial res­i­dence of the Fair­winds Foun­da­tion where it hosts all of the foun­da­tion's events.

Now in its 12th year, the foun­da­tion gets ready to host its an­nu­al Char­i­ty Jazz Brunch, which is its main fundrais­er that en­ables Fair­winds to run oth­er projects such as, the Back to School Book Bag/Sta­tionery dri­ve; Eat What You Grow ini­tia­tive; Schol­ar­ship Pro­gramme for Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion; Christ­mas par­ty and gift dis­tri­b­u­tion.

The Fair­winds Foun­da­tion is eter­nal­ly grate­ful to key spon­sor blink-bmo­bile for its con­tin­ued sup­port and valu­able con­tri­bu­tion to the an­nu­al Char­i­ty Jazz Brunch, which en­ables the foun­da­tion to as­sist ap­prox­i­mate­ly 270 chil­dren through its ini­tia­tives.

Ac­cord­ing to TSTT chief mar­ket­ing of­fi­cer Camille Camp­bell, "We be­lieve that part­ner­ing with the Fair­winds Foun­da­tion not on­ly al­lows TSTT to ful­fill its com­mit­ment to so­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty but to con­tribute to the de­vel­op­men­tal needs of the na­tion's youth and in par­tic­u­lar To­ba­go, in a mean­ing­ful and long last­ing way."

Sim­i­lar to pre­vi­ous years, this year's Char­i­ty Jazz Brunch promis­es to be a time of fun, food and en­ter­tain­ment. The brunch takes place on April 26 at the Fair­winds Foun­da­tion, Top Hill, Ma­son Hall/Les Coteaux Road, from 10 am to 4 pm.

The Fair­winds Foun­da­tion pri­mar­i­ly aims to ad­dress the needs of im­pov­er­ished chil­dren of Les Coteaux, Ma­son Hall and en­vi­rons and prides it­self on host­ing many phil­an­thropic projects. As part of its man­date, the foun­da­tion seeks to en­cour­age the ed­u­ca­tion­al de­vel­op­ment of the youth by pro­mot­ing pos­i­tive change in low­er so­cio-eco­nom­ic com­mu­ni­ties.

The Fair­winds Foun­da­tion views it­self as an ex­ten­sion of the hands of God to as­sist and em­pow­er the less for­tu­nate on the is­land of To­ba­go. Pre­vi­ous years have seen re­sound­ing sup­port for the an­nu­al Char­i­ty Jazz Brunch, which al­lowed Fair­winds to ex­tend its hands out­side the Ma­son Hall/Les Coteaux bor­ders to as­sist the Hap­py Haven School for spe­cial needs chil­dren and the To­ba­go School for the Deaf, Speech and Lan­guage Im­paired lo­cat­ed in Sig­nal Hill and Bon Ac­cord re­spec­tive­ly.

"The chil­dren were elat­ed to see that there were peo­ple who thought about them so high­ly to give them gifts for Christ­mas," said An­nette Nep­tune-Hen­ry, act­ing prin­ci­pal of the To­ba­go School for the Deaf, Speech and Lan­guage Im­paired, which caters to the five-18 age group.

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Peo­ple in­ter­est­ed in pur­chas­ing tick­ets can con­tact An­gela Ar­nasalam on 344-0520 or Gail Ra­jku­mar on 759-3292.