00:00A new youth-led non-profit organization, Charity TT, marked its official launch this past weekend
00:07with a back-to-school drive that supported 100 students from across the country. The launch was
00:13held at the Central Diego Martin Community Center, where founder Timothy Superville and his team
00:19partnered with 16 primary schools, including two from Tobago, to distribute essential school
00:26supplies to children in need. Superville told the gathering the initiative was born out of a
00:31conviction that true independence is not only about sovereignty, but also about solidarity,
00:38lifting one another up as a nation. Charity TT is not just another non-profit organization
00:47or a program to hand out supplies. Charity TT was born not simply out of an idea, but out of
01:00conviction. The conviction that love must move, that compassion must act, that a nation cannot heal by
01:12waiting on someone else to make the first step.
01:16Diego Martin West MP Hans Deveens was present at the event to lend his support to the cause.
01:24There are no small jobs in this world. I know a lot of people would like to say, you know,
01:31this job better than that job and this person better than that person. We see now around us,
01:36especially with CPEP not being active, we see how important all the jobs are. We see how important
01:44so many things around us are. The Prime Minister says that 20,000 children from across the country
01:51are to benefit from book grants for the new school term. Prime Minister Kamala Fisad-Bissasa made the
01:57announcement earlier today as she said the Separia constituency's annual back-to-school drive will
02:03see more than 2,000 children benefiting from private donations.
02:07Prime Minister Kamala Fisad-Bissasa made the announcement earlier today.
02:09Having served this constituency of Separia faithfully for over 30 years, I was very moved by the venue
02:17requests and I'm very proud that today we can answer the calls that were made to us. More than 2,000
02:24children will benefit from this back-to-school initiative that we have personally spearheaded. In addition to
02:31those 2,000 children that we are, we have worked together to help, Minister of Education, through the
02:38Minister of Education, we'll be assisting 20,000 children, 20,000 children with book grants.
02:47The Prime Minister said her administration was able to find 20 million dollars for the book grants for the
02:5420,000 children during the mid-year review of the budget.
02:59When we got into office, there was no provision in money, in terms of money, for book grants for children this year.
03:09And one of the first things we did, we had something called a mid-term review. We had to find the
03:15money. And we sat together, we cut out some things that we felt were not essential because
03:22we believed that your welfare, the students, the children, that your welfare should be our priority.
03:28And so we found 20 million dollars to put towards that 20,000 students in the whole of Trinidad and Tobago for book grants.
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