For the second consecutive year, the Spice Island Cultural Day Association of Quebec (SIC-DAQ) is putting a smile on the faces of Grenadian Children for the upcoming Holiday season.
It says it’s offering the gift of “care” through their “Christmas Smile Project”.
It targets the children widely recognized as one of the most vulnerable groups within the society, especially being hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Forced to deal with drastic changes and uncertainty during important developmental stages in their lives, SICDAQ says it’s answering the call, in collaboration with the Office of the Honorary Consul for Grenada in Quebec, Theodore H. Blaize.
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The Spice Island Cultural Day Association of Quebec is a non-profit organization which has as one of its many mandates to act as a medium to garner supplies, services and resources to support and strengthen institutions in Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
Through our successful GoFundMe Campaign: Helping the Spice Island Kids, which ran during the Spice Island Cultural Festival in July and continued until the end of October, the Spice Island Cultural Day Association of Quebec says it was able to partner with three of Grenada’s local charities: Reach Within, The Father Mallaghan Home for Boys and The BelAir Home for Children and Adolescents.
It says this is in order to help the institutions continue the marvelous work they’re doing for the kids in need in Grenada.
The SICDAQ organization speaks of a cash donation to the tune of 500 Canadian dollars for teens and young adults in need of life skill training and therapeutic mentoring programmes, and barrels of food products, boxes of school supplies, games, toys and personal items including, hygiene products, socks, PPE’s and other items that have been shipped and arrived in Grenada.
The Managers of the institutions have expressed their gratitude for the donation of cash and supplies.
Like the other institutional’ leaders, Lisa Charles, Home Manager at the Bel Air Home for Children and Adolescents, tells SIC-DAQ they’re forever thankful and grateful.
In addition to the Christmas Smile project, SIC-DAQ says it’s also proud to announce that they were also able to send approximately 20,000 dollar worth of PPE items to Mr. Derrick James, Director at Office of Diaspora Affairs, to be distributed to hospitals, clinics, churches and senior homes in Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
