Women in Ac­tion for the Needy and Des­ti­tute (WAND) host­ed its first Bub­bles and Benev­o­lence Tea on June 5 to a sold-out au­di­ence of loy­al sup­port­ers, af­fec­tion­ate­ly known as “WANDIES.”

Held at the charm­ing Free­bird venue in south Trinidad, the af­ter­noon was a stun­ning dis­play of gar­den chic with guests beau­ti­ful­ly dressed in flo­rals and flow­ing fab­rics.

It was a heart­warm­ing cel­e­bra­tion of sis­ter­hood, ser­vice, and sparkle, filled with laugh­ter, mu­sic, and in­spi­ra­tion. Guests were treat­ed to a scrump­tious tea buf­fet and ser­e­nad­ed by the en­chant­i­ng voice of Krys­tal Khayne. Pop­u­lar en­ter­tain­er MC Rome kept the en­er­gy high with in­ter­ac­tive games, sur­prise give­aways, and lots of joy­ful ban­ter.

The event al­so marked the of­fi­cial launch of WAND’s newest ini­tia­tive, Pages of Hope, a pro­gramme that places book­cas­es filled with up­lift­ing, in­spir­ing lit­er­a­ture in hos­pi­tal wait­ing ar­eas. The first in­stal­la­tion will be un­veiled at Au­gus­tus Long Hos­pi­tal, of­fer­ing pa­tients and fam­i­lies a source of com­fort and en­cour­age­ment dur­ing chal­leng­ing times.

In a mo­ment of ex­cite­ment and an­tic­i­pa­tion, pres­i­dent Aman­da Jar­dine in­vit­ed at­ten­dees to log on to WAND’s so­cial me­dia pages and block their cal­en­dars for the fi­nal two events of the year, Den­im & Di­a­monds and their Christ­mas Lunch, promis­ing more un­for­get­table mo­ments and im­pact­ful ini­tia­tives to come.

Bub­bles and Benev­o­lence not on­ly high­light­ed WAND’s mis­sion of com­pas­sion and com­mu­ni­ty care—it reaf­firmed the be­lief that to­geth­er, women can change lives.