The Na­tion­al Cen­tre for Per­sons with Dis­abil­i­ties re­ceived a $260,000 con­tri­bu­tion from the mon­ey raised by An­gos­tu­ra's Lega­cy din­ner, dance and auc­tion held on Au­gust 4 at the Hy­att Re­gency. Ex­ec­u­tive man­agers Alana Beaubrun and Genevieve Jod­han vis­it­ed the fa­cil­i­ty in San Fer­nan­do to present the cheque to the CEO Dr Bev­er­ly Beck­les. A re­lease from An­gos­tu­ra stat­ed that, Beck­les, who gra­cious­ly ac­cept­ed, said: "This is in­deed a won­der­ful ges­ture be­ing made by An­gos­tu­ra to our or­gan­i­sa­tion. We work hard to main­tain our fa­cil­i­ty to bet­ter able to as­sist those in our care. We will put this to good use."

The mon­ey will go to­ward in­stalling a gym at the New Street lo­ca­tion. This will help those who use the fa­cil­i­ties to main­tain a healthy way of life, and will help the cen­tre to ful­fill their mis­sion of "pro­vid­ing ef­fec­tive and ef­fi­cient train­ing and re­ha­bil­i­ta­tive ser­vices for per­sons with dis­abil­i­ties that en­hance the qual­i­ty of their lives and pro­mote their in­te­gra­tion in­to the wider com­mu­ni­ty."

An­gos­tu­ra CEO, Robert Wong stat­ed: "An­gos­tu­ra is hap­py to have been able to fa­cil­i­tate the ac­cu­mu­la­tion of this sum of mon­ey through our ef­forts in cel­e­bra­tion of the 50th an­niver­sary of our coun­try. "What is more fit­ting than to con­tribute to an or­gan­i­sa­tion which looks af­ter the of­ten for­got­ten mem­bers of our na­tion's so­ci­ety."