Paul Bacchus of Keybase Financial, one of the patrons of The Caribbean Children Foundation, receiving an Award of Recognition from TCCF President Jay Brijpaul for the company’s corporate sponsorship
The Caribbean Children Foundation (TCCF) of Toronto celebrated its 11th anniversary last month. The organisation was founded in 2000 to help sick kids from the Caribbean receive medical treatment in Canada.
The president of the organisation is Guyanese Jay Brijpaul (a real estate magnate) of Toronto. The first child to have received help from the organisation was a Caribbean national; Melissa Hercules. The organisation took care of the costs for her surgery at Toronto’s Sick Kids Hospital.
To date, the organisation has since helped to save 55 children’s lives. Brijpaul said “TCCF is as committed as it has ever been, to continue its mission to ease the sufferings of both the children and their parents by making it possible for those with dire afflictions, with nowhere to turn for help, to have a hand of mercy extended to them”.
The organization says “rescue of a child begins when a child from the Caribbean is identified with a condition for which local treatment in their native country is not available. And to get the child to somewhere that treatment may be had, becomes impossible due to a lack of finance. The situation may be described as a dead end in which poor parents and families can only look on while the condition of their suffering child continues to deteriorate”.
This is a very expensive undertaking. But Jay Brijpaul and his oprganisation are unfazed. Although each case involved almost CN $25,000, funds have been coming in to help deserving kids.
Brijpaul, the principal architect behind the formation of TCCF, related to this newspaper that he has made several calls for the community to assist and they have responded generously.
He noted that where there’s a will there’s a way. “Help has been coming in as TCCF keeps on extending a helping hand so freely to those in need.”
At the 11th Anniversary celebration of the founding of TCCF last month, over three hundred community members paid CN$40 each as an indication that they too care about saving lives.
An additional CN$11,000 was raised thanks to the call made by the Emcee Richard Azeez.
According to a report in the Indo-Caribbean World, the Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto has stated that in terms of the number of children helped at that institution, TCCF has outperformed most other similar children’s charities.
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