The Ro­tary Club of South­west To­ba­go has re­ceived a cheque for $15,000 from the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA). The mon­ey is to as­sist in off­set­ting the cost of the vis­it of a team of ten chi­ro­prac­tors who spent a week in March, pro­vid­ing free as­sis­tance to 6,111 To­bag­o­ni­ans dur­ing the one-week pe­ri­od. In pre­sent­ing the cheque to Ro­tary pres­i­dent Joseph Mor­ri­son at his Calder Hall of­fice, THA chief sec­re­tary Orville Lon­don said the as­sem­bly was more than hap­py to have ful­filled a com­mit­ment to the club to pro­vide the fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance.

"I think it is some­thing with which we want to be as­so­ci­at­ed and have been as­so­ci­at­ed from its in­cep­tion four years ago," he said. Lon­don said this year the club would fo­cus on di­a­betes, a sub­ject the as­sem­bly want­ed to con­tin­ue to be as­so­ci­at­ed with as it was one of the ma­jor chal­lenges fac­ing To­bag­o­ni­ans. He said he hoped the club would be able to as­sist the as­sem­bly in the pre­ven­tion and con­trol as­pects, rather than just treat­ment. Mor­ri­son said his club was very ap­pre­cia­tive of the as­sis­tance and thanked Lon­don and chief ad­min­is­tra­tor Dr El­lis Bur­ris for mak­ing it a re­al­i­ty.