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Jul 24, 2018 News
As part of its efforts to raise funds for its suicide and violence prevention efforts, The Caribbean Voice [TCV] in April launched a fundraising raffle. The drawing of the raffle was scheduled for Friday July 27, 2018 but according to the TCV Director, Mr. Nazim S. Hussain, this has been postponed.
This development he chalked up to unforeseen circumstances,which will now force the drawing to be held on December 14, 2018 instead.
“TCV regrets the inconvenience caused and wishes to advise that all tickets that were purchased for the July drawing will still be valid for the drawing in December,” Hussain said.
In fact he disclosed that ticket holders will have a chance of winning even more prizes. Still up for grabs are: [First Prize] a flat screen television compliments of Comfort Sleep Mattress; [Second Prize] a small refrigerator compliments of Hussain’s television programme Coast to Coast; [Third Prize] a microwave oven compliments of the Team MMR radio programme and 50 consolation prizes all valued $5000 or more. But in addition to these, the raffle will now also offer fourth and fifth prizes, Hussain revealed yesterday.
Tickets for the raffle can still be purchased from any member of the Caribbean Voice, in all of the department stores at the Giftland Mall, the Bagotstown M and M Snackette; the W. D. Hotel and Mart on the Essequibo Coast; and Imam Bacchus and Sons and at Patrick’s Shop, Golden Fleece, Essequibo Coast.
Persons can also contact Hussain on 644-1152 or the TCV Deputy Coordinator, Keshni Rooplall, on 697-9968.
According to Hussain, while the Caribbean Voice is aware that Government has been doing work towards suicide prevention, there are number of other NGOs that have also been doing work in this regard.
He, however, noted that “many times NGOs cry out that they are not getting funding and the Caribbean Voice is one of those NGOs. So we thought that if we did a raffle it would show to all donor agencies that we are making an effort with our volunteer members to raise some funds.”
It is expected, Hussain said, that the funds raised from the raffle will position TCV to bring to reality all of its planned programmes for 2018.
“We have a lot of programmes planned for this year. [Although] our members are volunteers the logistics involve a lot of money for travelling, to provide the training documents and things like that, so we are appealing to Guyanese to support a worthy cause,” said Hussain.
He is convinced that the proactive work of the Caribbean Voice would in fact serve as motivation to donor agencies including government.
“We are not overly worried that the [government] might not find time to sponsor us but I do know that they are doing a lot of work and the finances are difficult to come by,” Hussain added.
Financing for suicide prevention does not always come easy. Moreover, this has sometimes translated to some suicide prevention organisations barely being able to meet the costs associated with conducting related outreaches and workshops.
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