Vinsave receives New Year’s gift

The lives of staff and children at the VINSAVE Child Development Centre have been made much easier early in the New Year as a result of a donation by the Toronto SVG Support Group.

The donation consisted of a popcorn machine, a projector and groceries.{{more}}

VINSAVE (SVG Save the Children Fund) director Janice Fraser, in thanking the Toronto-based donors, indicated that the popcorn machine “will not only serve as a means for raising funds for the Centre, but will also be used in providing snacks for the children.” The projector, she said, will be used as a tool for delivering workshop presentations.

The Save the Children Fund was established in the Windward Islands by the British in 1963 to address the nutritional and health needs of children – St Vincent being the headquarters. It also serves as a Training Centre in Early Childhood Education.

The Canadian Save the Children Fund (CANSAVE) took financial responsibility for the programme in 1969 when the British opted out, but are now no longer involved at that level.

The donor, the Toronto SVG Support Group, was launched in 2012 and has among its objectives to “aid in the socio-economic development of young Vincentians at home and abroad”. Since its formation, the Group has made donations to the Liberty Lodge Boys’ Training Centre, Rotary South for its children’s Christmas parties, Lions’ Club South for presentation of groceries to needy families annually at Christmas time, flood relief efforts following the December 2013 disaster, among others.

The donation to VINSAVE from the Toronto SVG Support Group was valued at approximately EC$2,500.00.