Colin St. Hill, third from left, Acting Deputy Director accepts the donation from Megan Mayers, third from right, as from left: Kevyn Henry, Esther Bayley-Smith, Senior Child Care Officer, Barry Mayers from Ripples and Sarah Odle look on.
THE Child Care Board of Barbados received a donation of over 3600 masks from the Canadian based charity, Leslois Shaw Foundation on Friday as the fight against the pandemic COVID-19 continues.
According to Sarah Olde personal assistant to the Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, the project was initiated with an offer to Barbados of 105 000 face mask of varying sizes. “We have all suffered with mask too small or a mask too big.”
The Leslois Shaw Foundation is the agency in association with Ripples to produce these mask.
“We thought it important to start where is mattered most, the children, who struggle with social distancing and who had to go school,” said Odle.
Odle said that there will be many more masks and they will be distributed across the length and breadth of Barbados.
Chair of LesLois Shaw Foundation Virgina and Less Hutchinson, personal assistant Megan Mayers said that the mask were designed by Tania Taylor Designs a New York fashion designer and Ripples Limited in Barbados. Together they have got the material and created the mask and donated to Barbados.
Colin St. Hill deputy director acting of the Child Care Board said that children are very important in our society and sometimes we get caught up with the adults.
“Sometimes it is the child that reminds the adults about what they are supposed to be doing in terms of safety,” said St. Hill.
The donation places them in a position to reinforce how important it is for us as a society to continue doing what is right and keep down the spread of COVID-19.
“I think this presentation is very timely and it is important that we remind persons that it is not over and we need to be vigilant and continue to do what is right in order to keep our society safe and children will play an important part in this whole exercise,” it was pointed out.
Also present at the donation were Kevyn Henry, personal assistant to Cynthia Forde, Esther Bayley-Smith Senior child care officer and Barry Mayers, Ripples.
