The Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go re­cent­ly part­nered with the Just Be­cause Foun­da­tion (JBF) to host an Evening of Games. A re­lease from the UTC said the ini­tia­tive helped cul­ti­vate and ce­ment re­la­tion­ships be­tween the com­pa­ny, the JBF and those who work in the wider com­mu­ni­ty and who know first-hand the chal­lenges that chil­dren with can­cer face. With an ar­ray of games rang­ing from snakes and lad­ders, lu­do and draughts that brought back the nos­tal­gic days, to the stim­u­lat­ing Ges­ture game where per­form­ers ex­press mean­ing to words through ges­tures and the time­less colour­ing books which test­ed the imag­i­na­tion and cre­ativ­i­ty of the chil­dren. Guests were al­so treat­ed to a mag­ic show.

Based in Diego Mar­tin, JBF is an in­cor­po­rat­ed, non-prof­it, pae­di­atric can­cer sup­port or­gan­i­sa­tion es­tab­lished by Noel and Chevaughn Joseph who, af­ter a tena­cious two-year bat­tle, lost their five-and-a-half-year-old son Jabez "JB" Joseph to Alve­o­lar Rhab­domyosar­co­ma, a rare form of child­hood can­cer. "The bet­ter we know our com­mu­ni­ties, the bet­ter we can serve them. As such this out­reach ac­tiv­i­ty can play an im­por­tant role in im­prov­ing our un­der­stand­ing of the com­mu­ni­ties in which we work and serve," said Eu­trice Car­ring­ton, ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor, UTC.