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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Rapidfire Kidz Foundation launches with charity dinner

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Rapid­fire Kidz Foun­da­tion was a dream of San Fer­nan­do at­tor­ney Kevin Rati­ram's for a num­ber of years. On Ju­ly 15 that dream be­came a re­al­i­ty at a gala char­i­ty din­ner at Paria Suites, La Ro­maine, where the Rapid­fire Kidz Foun­da­tion was for­mal­ly launched. Foun­da­tion pres­i­dent Rati­ram said: "The Almighty spoke to me. For over a year this ex­ist­ed in my head. It was vi­sion. At the com­mence­ment of this year I set one res­o­lu­tion." Rati­ram said he al­ways want­ed to form an or­gan­i­sa­tion that would make a pos­i­tive im­pact on so­ci­ety. He said his vi­sion for the foun­da­tion is to in­spire T&T to de­vel­op a cul­ture of char­i­ty-giv­ing, where "each of us re­gards our­selves as our broth­ers' keep­er, that we may one day rise up to be­come a com­pas­sion­ate peo­ple, in or­der that peace, seren­i­ty, and hap­pi­ness shall pre­vail over this land." He said he was over­whelmed by the show of sup­port he re­ceived for the char­i­ty din­ner to launch the foun­da­tion. The tick­ets cost $500 and were sold out. In ad­di­tion, a Dutch auc­tion for a framed au­to­graphed Daren Gan­ga t-shirt, with bid­ders San Fer­nan­do May­or Dr Navi Mu­radali and Ari­ma May­or Ghas­san Youseph brought in $12,000. Mu­radali left the event with the shirt in hand."We raised $104,000 prof­it," Rati­ram de­clared.

He said the Foun­da­tion has planned sev­er­al projects, in­clud­ing field trips, ed­u­ca­tion­al tours and Christ­mas treats for needy chil­dren. "We are do­ing noth­ing new. There are nu­mer­ous or­gan­i­sa­tions that al­ready do that. But my vi­sion for this foun­da­tion is big­ger than just toys and field­trips." Re­fer­ring to the foun­da­tion's mot­to, Fu­el Your Heart, he asked: "What does this mean? Well, to me, it refers to a feel­ing of ful­fil­ment that over­comes you when you know that you've done God's work." Rati­ram said he was in­spired by Machel Mon­tano & Ben­jai's song, Amnesty. Mas­ter of cer­e­monies, come­di­enne Nik­ki Crob­sy, used the op­por­tu­ni­ty to poke some fun at the guest of hon­or, Pres­i­dent George Maxwell Richards. "He not go­ing any­where. We have plen­ty fete to go," she quipped, in ref­er­ence to his term in of­fice near­ing its end. Vo­cal­ists Ray­mond Ram­nar­ine and Gen­er­al Im­ran en­ter­tained the au­di­ence with a med­ley of East In­di­an songs. Ram­nar­ine al­so de­liv­ered a soul­ful ren­di­tion of his song, An­gel in Heav­en, which was ded­i­cat­ed to Sean Luke Lum­fai, who was mur­dered in Or­ange Field in 2006.


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