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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
Picture Left to right: Jonisha Cartwright-BREEF, Angela Lightbourn-Solomon’s Fresh Market and club members with Miss Teen Bahamas International 2015 and BREEF volunteer Britney Wells.
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Solomon’s Fresh Market ‘Kids Who Care Club’ make cool drinks cooler with a cause!
Nassau, Bahamas - The young members of the Solomon’s Fresh Market, ‘Kids Who Care Club’ (SKWCC), spent recent Fridays and Saturdays selling fresh lemonade outside Solomon’s Fresh Market food store at Old Fort Bay to raise money for the Bahamas Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, (BREEF,) Family Island Sea Camps.
These proactive young people aged from 7 to 14, were out in force, braving the heat, aiming to raise $1,000 to help children from the Family Islands get the chance to enjoy a BREEF Sea Camp experience and learn how to preserve the Marine Ecosystems of their home islands.
Ready for snorkeling at BREEF Sea Camp on San Salvador
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BREEF runs free Family Island Sea Camps on Eleuthera and San Salvador to provide access to fun, hands-on, motivational education programmes on marine environment. Without these camps, many family island children would not get the chance to learn about the environments they live in, and depend on. BREEF is able to provide these programmes thanks to the financial assistance provided through various fund-raising activities, so in this instance, every lemonade purchased was worth a great deal more than the dollar it cost.
SKWCC volunteers and team leaders managed to raise an impressive $835 which Solomon’s Fresh Market doubled to $1,670 for BREEF’s Family Island Sea Camps. The Solomon’s Fresh Market ‘Kids Who Care Club’ aims to “inspire, equip and mobilize kids to take actions that impact the earth, animals and community.”
Casuarina Mckinney-Lambert, BREEF Executive Director expressed her thanks. “We are very grateful to Solomon’s Fresh Market and of course, to all the SWKCC volunteers and team members whose dedication to improving the lives of their peers, as well as to preserving our environment is an example of caring at its very best.”
Cheque presentation to BREEF from Solomon’s Fresh Market, ‘Kids Who Care Club’. Left to right: Ellen Sands, Marketing Assistant-Solomon's Fresh Market: Miljojka Gojkovic, club member and Chantal Curtis, BREEF Education Officer.
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About BREEF
The Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation (BREEF) is a Bahamian non-profit, non-government organization founded in 1993. BREEF’s mission is to promote the conservation of the Bahamian marine environment that sustains our way of life. Like BREEF on Facebook, follow breef242 on twitter or visit www.breef.org to learn more about this project and other BREEF initiatives.
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