Christ­mas is tru­ly the time for giv­ing, and that's ex­act­ly what Dig­i­cel did when the com­pa­ny treat­ed chil­dren and young adults alike with spe­cial needs.The event took place on De­cem­ber 13 at the Dig­i­cel IMAX at One Wood­brook Place where chil­dren from 15 spe­cial schools, in­sti­tu­tions and cen­tres is­land-wide were treat­ed to a morn­ing at the movies.These al­so in­clud­ed some in-pa­tients with spe­cial needs from the St Ann's Hos­pi­tal.

Af­ter col­lect­ing the ever-pop­u­lar cin­e­ma must-haves, pop­corn and a drink, it was then off to the cin­e­ma to an ex­pe­ri­ence of a life­time. Dig­i­cel staffers who as­sist­ed in hand­ing out 3D glass­es and guid­ing them to their seats were al­so in for a sur­prise them­selves.A few of the af­fec­tion­ate kids were very gen­er­ous with their hugs and kiss­es!

Dig­i­cel's Com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er Pen­ny Gomez, who spoke briefly to the large crowd just be­fore the film start­ed, said, "I can talk and talk as much as I can but what we re­al­ly want is to see your faces as you ex­pe­ri­ence Dig­i­cel IMAX."Close to 300 ex­cit­ed chil­dren and young adults then set­tled down to watch the IMAX clas­sic Born to be Wild. As the lights dimmed and the show be­gan lots of "oohs" and "aahs" were heard as they set­tled down and ex­pe­ri­enced 3D for the first time.

How­ev­er, what is a Christ­mas treat with­out San­ta? Af­ter the movie, San­ta was on hand to meet and greet these spe­cial per­sons, who each re­ceived a gift of a Dig­i­cel lunch bag and a big hug from Mr Claus.Ku­mar Ram­lochan-Singh a psy­chi­atric nurse at the St Ann's Hos­pi­tal who ac­com­pa­nied the pa­tients said of the event: "It was very well or­gan­ised, every­thing went smooth­ly and the kids re­al­ly en­joyed the show.

"It was their first time to the Dig­i­cel IMAX." He con­tin­ued, "Even meet­ing and get­ting a hug from San­ta was great."The morn­ing's ac­tiv­i­ties were held un­der the um­brel­la of the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion, as Dig­i­cel con­tin­ues to deep­en its on­go­ing re­la­tion­ship with those with spe­cial needs. Ear­li­er this year Dig­i­cel, a ma­jor spon­sor of the lo­cal Spe­cial Olympics Games con­tributed $202,000 to the Spe­cial Olympics of Trinidad and To­ba­go.