Open let­ter to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar:

I, like you, am very proud of not on­ly Keshorn Wal­cott for the gold medal he has won for our coun­try, but of all the T&T ath­letes who played a part in the Lon­don Olympics and who have giv­en their all to make the coun­try proud. But the Olympics is once every four years.

What about peo­ple like Phillip Alexan­der, who feeds the poor every day and who works day in and day out to make a dif­fer­ence in our so­ci­ety??Or Si­mone de la Bastide, the woman from Wand who works hard every year to make a dif­fer­ence in the lives of bat­tered women??Or Eliz­a­beth Ale­ong, the pres­i­dent of Caribbean Kids and Fam­i­lies Ther­a­py Or­gan­i­sa­tion, an NGO that rais­es funds to help chil­dren with dis­abil­i­ties and rents a home to keep the NGO run­ning??Or even the Venezue­lan woman, Di­an­ny Her­nan­dez, who runs an NGO to help chil­dren with life-threat­en­ing ill­ness­es in T&T?

I must say, Madam Prime Min­is­ter, that your pri­or­i­ties are not in or­der.

Sofia Leon

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