PHILIPSBURG--Two children from across the region have become the first beneficiaries of RBC/RBTT Bank’s Caribbean Children’s Cancer Fund.
The first to receive financial assistance for medical treatment were two boys, a 16-year-old from Grenada and a two-year-old from Trinidad and Tobago. Applications for funding other childhood cancer patients are also being considered.
RBC and RBTT launched the Caribbean Children’s Cancer Fund in June 2009, with a starting contribution of approximately US $188,000. In total, the organisation will donate approximately $940,000 to the fund over the next five years and has pledged to raise more money over the same period to fight paediatric cancer.
RBTT employees across the region have carried out several fundraisers in support of the cancer fund since its launch, including an art competition, bake sales, bingo, flea markets, movie days, Christmas card sales and breakfast mornings.
Through their efforts, as well as substantial donations from the public, an additional sum of approximately $60,000 was deposited to the cancer fund on December 31, 2009. RBTT and RBC thanked all who had contributed to the initiative.
Fundraising activities will be carried out in all RBTT jurisdictions over the next five years in an effort to fight the growing problem of childhood cancer in the Caribbean.
