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The Arijah Children's Foundation Receives Donation From Young Anguillian Children

A group of young Anguillian children are leading the way this Christmas season as a shining example of the true Spirit of Giving.

Front Row left to right: Benajah Harrigan, Xander Owen-Vasilis, Tobie Bloom. Back Row left to right: Mijah Harrigan, Renuka Harrigan, Arijah Harrigan, Ashley Mohammed and Andre Mohammed. Children not in photo: Nandi and Kyiv Edwards, Lavida Niles, Pablo and Christian Estrada and Janelle Buffonge.

At the Palm Garden Art Studio in North Hill, the children participating in the Christmas Art Camp decided to do something good to help others. On their own initiative, they picked limes and pomserrates to sell so they could donate the money for a good cause. And on a bright sunny Friday morning with the wind dancing in the trees and smiles dancing on their faces they donated the money they had raised to The Arijah Children’s Foundation.

The Arijah Children’s Foundation of Anguilla was formed in 2006 as a non-profit foundation to help Anguilla’s special needs children. Its primary mission is to create a centre for these special children to receive the care and developmental assistance they so urgently need in order to give them a chance to develop their potential and to live the full and meaningful lives that they were born to live.

Since its formation, the Foundation has made steady progress towards finalizing its plans of establishing a centre to provide educational and childcare support to special needs and well children in Anguilla. It plans to commence operating this centre in 2008, and continues to work towards striving to materialize this goal.

However, in order to make one significant step towards achieving this aim, the Foundation is in urgent need of support from kind sponsors to assist with establishing the premises to house this centre, which will become the home for caring for the very special children of Anguilla. The Foundation would be grateful to receive assistance with regard to securing the premises from which the centre shall operate, or any other assistance for its construction.

The Arijah Children’s Foundation would like to express their heartfelt thanks and gratitude to these young Anguillian children for their kind, selfless, and charitable act and to praise and encourage them for considering what they could do to help others. With the support of the children and the Anguillian community the Foundation will succeed in helping Anguilla’s special children.

Special thanks also goes out to all those who have supported the Foundation in its first year and wishes for a blessed and merry Christmas and a bright and prosperous new year. Thank you to Nat & Noreen Hodge and The Anguillian staff, Michelle Owen-Vasilis at Palm Garden Art Studio, Webster Dyrud Mitchell, CuisinArt Resort & Spa, Haskins Ltd., Fabiana Liburd of ab/fabphotography, Sylvia Landry and Carol Harrigan of Shoal Bay Development, Pam Webster, Merlanih Lim, Pastor Cecil Richardson, Monica Trimble, Alex Ballin, Dr. Indira Jundam, Valerie Zaharia the Foundation’s Board of Directors, Gilbert and Aphy Fleming of ICSS, Gillie Connor and Winston Duncan at The Teachers Resource Centre, Principal Jahi Rohrer at TGOI, Pastor Philip Gumbs and Radio Anguilla, Anguilla Printers, Mitch Lake and Jason Allen at ATA, Dr. Edgar Paige, of Hotel de Health, Louis Price of JCRC, Piotr Bonarski, Arijah’s family and thanks and praises to God Almighty.

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