Shaz­a­ad Ali and Anand Samuel emerged as the win­ners of the in­au­gur­al Con­flict Women Char­i­ty Golf Tour­na­ment at the Brechin Cas­tle Golf Course in Cou­va on Sat­ur­day (Ju­ly 12).

Ali and Samue, each took home a 32-inch tele­vi­sion from Khalian Sys­tems and a bot­tle of Veuve Clic­quot cham­pagne from AS Bry­dens in the com­pe­ti­tion spon­sored by 2001 Car­pet House Ltd, the sil­ver spon­sor, and sev­er­al key sup­port­ers of the event in­clud­ing Caribbean Gas Chem­i­cals, Re­pub­lic Bank, Trinidad Un­gener­a­tion Lim­it­ed, ICONS Co. Ltd and the Cur­ry Tribe Food Com­pa­ny.

There were 27 teams com­pris­ing play­ers from sev­er­al golf cours­es across the is­land. There were five oth­er prizes to be won, pro­vid­ed by spon­sors, in­clud­ing Co­conut Grow­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (CGA), Fur­ni­ture Plus, 2001 Car­pet House Ltd. and AS Bry­dens.

The cham­pi­ons were fol­lowed by the grand­moth­er and grand­son pair of ABA Roopc­hand and Vi­o­let Roopc­hand, and in third place were Ka­di­an Khan and Aaron Sir­ju. Azar­i­on Samuel and Av­ery Sir­ju were fourth with the team of Dwayne Ram­lal and Kevesh Ram­nath, and Devin Ram­jat­tan and Robert Sawh, fill­ing fifth and sixth spots.

The “near­est to the pin” prize went to Ka­di­an Sawh.

Con­flict Women, in a re­lease, thanked its spon­sors, the play­ers and the pres­i­dent, ex­ec­u­tive and staff of Brechin Cas­tle Golf Club.

Found­ed in 2014, Con­flict Women fi­nan­cial­ly em­pow­ers sur­vivors of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence and rape by pro­vid­ing en­tre­pre­neur­ship pro­grammes, busi­ness men­tor­ship and seed cap­i­tal to launch or ex­pand their small busi­ness­es through our Sur­vivor En­tre­pre­neur­ship Pitch Com­pe­ti­tion.

Their But­ter­fly Project work­shops have pro­vid­ed pro-bono liveli­hood skills train­ing to hun­dreds of rape and do­mes­tic vi­o­lence sur­vivors over the past 11 years, in busi­ness de­vel­op­ment, ac­count­ing, sales, yo­ga for trau­ma, equine ther­a­py, jew­ellery mak­ing, pot­tery and art.

In ad­di­tion to the first re­spon­der ser­vices they of­fer, they re­cent­ly launched a Pro Bono Le­gal Pan­el, match­ing sur­vivors with at­tor­neys spe­cial­is­ing in fam­i­ly law, who pro­vide them with le­gal rep­re­sen­ta­tion in courts on key mat­ters of pro­tec­tion or­ders, cus­tody and main­te­nance.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­lease, the or­gan­i­sa­tion be­lieves in the role of sports in con­tribut­ing to holis­tic de­vel­op­ment and well­ness and is hap­py to have part­nered with the Brechin Cas­tle Golf Club for this event, the first of many more to come.

“Se­lect donors and part­ners over the years in­clude the British High Com­mis­sion, PSI Caribbean, Ernst & Young, Uni­com­er, Hy­att Re­gency, and the Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T,” the re­lease added.