The work of an NGO is a tire­less one. The de­mands placed on these or­gan­i­sa­tions by those who need their ser­vices make trans­porta­tion a crit­i­cal part in en­sur­ing that vol­un­teers car­ry out their du­ties ef­fi­cient­ly. Recog­nis­ing this, blink/bmo­bile do­nat­ed two used ve­hi­cles to NGOs well known for their work with at-risk and abused youth. "We recog­nise that the na­ture of an NGO's work has a lot to do with com­mut­ing. blink/bmo­bile want­ed to en­hance the abil­i­ty of the NGOs we se­lect­ed to serve com­mu­ni­ties bet­ter," said Trevor Deane, TSTT's ex­ec­u­tive vice pres­i­dent– mar­ket­ing, strate­gic an­a­lyt­ics and car­ri­er busi­ness. Deane re­cent­ly hand­ed over two ve­hi­cles, re­tired from TSTT's fleet-a pan­el van and a sta­tion wag­on-to the Love Un­til Foun­da­tion and the So­cial Jus­tice Foun­da­tion at TSTT's Laven­tille Work Cen­tre. Rachel Byng-Roberts, CEO of the Love Un­til Foun­da­tion, said she was grate­ful to blink/bmo­bile for its ges­ture and con­tin­ued sup­port over the years.

The NGO opened its doors sev­en years ago and is based at Up­per Church Street, Laven­tille. Its vi­sion is to reach out to res­i­dents of Laven­tille and en­hance their qual­i­ty of lives spir­i­tu­al­ly, emo­tion­al­ly and phys­i­cal­ly. Byng-Roberts and Bri­an Jones, chair­man of the Love Un­til Foun­da­tion, col­lect­ed the keys to the pan­el van which they plan to put to use as soon as it is pos­si­ble. The much-need­ed van will be used to dis­trib­ute ham­pers to the Foun­da­tion's drug re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion cen­tre based in Matu­ra and to its chil­dren's homes at Curepe and Tacarigua. For Mau­reen Arneaud, pres­i­dent of the So­cial Jus­tice Foun­da­tion, re­ceiv­ing the keys to the sta­tion wag­on was "a bless­ing." The So­cial Jus­tice Foun­da­tion was es­tab­lished five years ago to bring com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nol­o­gy to at-risk youths in rur­al ar­eas in­clud­ing Matelot, Carlsen Field and Ma­yaro. Through The Good News Me­dia (TGN), young peo­ple are trained in videog­ra­phy, re­port­ing and video edit­ing. The foun­da­tion al­so pro­vides jobs for those trained. "When we got start­ed I used my own ve­hi­cle to take vol­un­teers to and from these rur­al ar­eas for train­ing. I got in­to an ac­ci­dent two years ago and my car was to­taled so the foun­da­tion has been with­out a ve­hi­cle since then. "It was dif­fi­cult be­cause we had to spend a lot of mon­ey out of pock­et to get our vol­un­teers and the heavy equip­ment out to these ar­eas via maxi taxi. The cost to go to To­co alone is $1,500. Get­ting this ve­hi­cle to­day is noth­ing but a bless­ing."