The Green Mar­ket San­ta Cruz (GM­SC) and BAFA will hand over a cheque for $10, 000 to the Foun­da­tion for the En­rich­ment of Life on Sat­ur­day. It is the pro­ceeds from the “Run Against Hunger”, or­ga­nized by BAFA and host­ed by GM­SC on March 25th as part of the Green Mar­ket’s 10th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions.

Ju­nior Ed­wards, the Mar­ket’s man­ag­er praised Bafa Sports “BAFA did a re­al­ly great job of mar­ket­ing and or­ga­niz­ing this spe­cial 5K and we re­al­ly ap­pre­ci­at­ed their en­thu­si­asm and pro­fes­sion­al­ism”. BAFA’s CEO Nigel Bel­lamy em­pha­sized that the goal of 300 par­tic­i­pants can still be achieved by com­plet­ing a vir­tu­al 5K."

“We are grate­ful to all the run­ners, walk­ers and con­trib­u­tors who have made this do­na­tion to FEEL pos­si­ble. The Green Mar­ket is keen­ly aware of the ef­forts of farm­ers to grow food lo­cal­ly us­ing good agri­cul­tur­al prac­tices. And we are sad­dened by the in­creased in­ci­dences of hunger, un­der­nour­ish­ment, and mal­nu­tri­tion in our coun­try” ex­plained Vic­ki As­severo, GM­SC’s founder.

F.E.E.L. pro­vid­ed sup­port for over 100,000 fam­i­lies in 2022. Ac­cord­ing to the Hel­gi Li­brary, Trinidad & To­ba­go had 425,000 house­holds in 2020. This means al­most 25% of the pop­u­la­tion re­ceived as­sis­tance from FEEL. Wen­dell Con­stan­tine, the CEO of FEEL said, “We val­ue the op­por­tu­ni­ty to part­ner with non-prof­it or­ga­ni­za­tions and com­mu­ni­ty groups like GM­SC to as­sist the un­der­priv­i­leged through the dis­tri­b­u­tion of sta­ple food items to 107107 NPOs and char­i­ta­ble homes across the coun­try so we thank GM­SC and BAFA for the good idea to run against hunger.”