Ath­letes rep­re­sent­ing T&T at the up­com­ing Carif­ta Games will be pro­vid­ed care pack­ages by The Bry­dens Group, sup­port­ed by key brands Suppli­gen, No More, Cer­aVe, Ko­tex, Hi­malaya, Brut and Am­mens.

The ini­tia­tive was spear­head­ed by na­tion­al 400 me­tres sprint­er Jereem Richards, who want­ed to pro­vide the ath­letes with a per­son­al boost ahead of the April 19-23 Games. Each ath­lete pack­age will in­clude yo­ga mats, sport tow­els, toi­letries and oth­er brand­ed sup­plies.

Speak­ing of the ini­tia­tive, Head of Shared Ser­vices & Spe­cial Projects, The Bry­dens Group, Scott Fran­co said, “This was a no-brain­er for us be­cause like these ath­letes we too have re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al as­pi­ra­tions. Their dreams and jour­ney re­flect our own, and we are ex­cit­ed to con­tin­ue our part­ner­ship with Jereem by ex­tend­ing sup­port to the na­tion­al ath­letes who will don the red, black and white to com­pete at Carif­ta 2025.’’

Richards em­pha­sised the im­por­tance of broad-based sup­port for na­tion­al ath­letes say­ing, “I’ve been where these ath­letes are, and I want­ed to pro­vide them with some­thing that I didn’t nec­es­sar­i­ly have when I was com­ing through the ranks. I think it’s im­por­tant that we pro­vide as much sup­port as we can to the ath­letes ahead of the Games and through­out the event. I per­son­al­ly want to ask T&T to come out and give our young ath­letes your sup­port.”

The care pack­ages were hand­ed over to ath­letes and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT) on Fri­day at Bry­dens Head­quar­ters, Ibis Av­enue, San Juan.

NAAATT pres­i­dent Ephraim Ser­rette was in at­ten­dance as well as sev­er­al ath­letes in­clud­ing Kaleigh Forde, De­shawn Leza­ma, Kadeem Chi­napoo, Tenique Vin­cent and Tyrique Vin­cent and mem­bers of the tech­ni­cal staff, Wen­dell Williams (head coach), Sher­win Joseph (as­sis­tant team man­ag­er) and Don­nell Stafford (coach).