Fam­i­lies in cen­tral and south Trinidad now have eas­i­er ac­cess to the mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary ther­a­peu­tic ser­vices of­fered by the Caribbean Kids and Fam­i­lies Ther­a­py Or­gan­i­sa­tion (CK­FTO) at its satel­lite clin­ic on Ram­saran Street in Ch­agua­nas.

The clin­ic will pro­vide ther­a­py and sup­port for chil­dren from birth to 21 years old with con­di­tions such as autism, sen­so­ry pro­cess­ing dis­or­ders, AD­HD, and Down Syn­drome.

CK­FTO chair­man Derek Luk Pat cel­e­brat­ed the day as a proud mo­ment for the non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion, say­ing, “One of the fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ples of how we op­er­ate is to pro­vide ther­a­py at sub­sidised rates to eco­nom­i­cal­ly chal­lenged fam­i­lies.”

Luk Pat thanked the CK­FTO’s stake­hold­ers and gen­er­ous donors, in­clud­ing the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion, which con­tributed $60,000 to equip the new fa­cil­i­ty with es­sen­tial oc­cu­pa­tion­al ther­a­py equip­ment.

The do­na­tion to CK­FTO is part of the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion’s broad­er com­mit­ment to sup­port­ing per­sons with dis­abil­i­ties and the or­gan­i­sa­tions that serve this of­ten-over­looked com­mu­ni­ty.

Speak­ing at the clin­ic’s of­fi­cial open­ing last Tues­day, Pen­ny Gomez, CEO of the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion, said, “This new Ch­agua­nas clin­ic marks yet an­oth­er vi­tal step for­ward, reach­ing more fam­i­lies, clos­er to home—es­pe­cial­ly those who may have strug­gled in the past to ac­cess these ser­vices.”