Vi­tas House Hos­pice is invit­ing the na­tion to come to­geth­er in sol­i­dar­i­ty, re­mem­brance, and hope at its first Can­cer Re­mem­brance 5K Walk, set to take place on June 14 at St Mary’s Col­lege (CIC) Grounds, St Clair, in Port-of-Spain.

The event, ti­tled “I Walk To Re­mem­ber”, will be held an­nu­al­ly and is de­signed to ho­n­our the lives lost to can­cer and to raise funds for free pal­lia­tive care ser­vices pro­vid­ed by Vi­tas House Hos­pice.

“For the past 16 years, Vi­tas House Hos­pice has been a bea­con of com­fort and dig­ni­ty for ter­mi­nal­ly ill can­cer pa­tients and their fam­i­lies, pro­vid­ing com­pas­sion­ate end-of-life care at no cost,” said Lisa Hadad, chair­man of Vi­tas House Hos­pice. “Our mis­sion has al­ways been to en­hance the qual­i­ty of life and dig­ni­fy its ter­mi­nal stages through spe­cial care sup­port and ser­vice.”

In­ter­na­tion­al food brand CHOBANI, dis­trib­uted by HAD­CO Lim­it­ed’s Dis­tri­b­u­tion Di­vi­sion, has com­mit­ted a US$10,000 con­tri­bu­tion to­wards the event.

Speak­ing at the re­cent­ly held press con­fer­ence at the Vi­tas House Hos­pice in St James, Brand Man­ag­er Dar­ius Rawl­ins said, “The part­ner­ship be­tween the Vi­tas House Hos­pice and CHOBANI is di­rect­ly aligned with the brand’s glob­al mis­sion of shap­ing the fu­ture of food by in­vest­ing in four pil­lars: in­clu­siv­i­ty, child hunger, sus­tain­abil­i­ty and com­mu­ni­ty well­ness.”

The 5k walk will be­gin and end at CIC Grounds on Ser­pen­tine Road in St Clair and will in­clude a lap around the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah. The start time is set for 7.30 am and will be man­aged by Ja­son Good­ing, events di­rec­tor – Rain­bow War­riors Triathlon Club. Par­tic­i­pants will be treat­ed to a light break­fast up­on com­ple­tion of the walk.

Reg­is­tra­tion is open at www.raceroster.com/105052 and costs TT$125. Par­tic­i­pants will re­ceive a brand­ed T-shirt and a com­mem­o­ra­tive medal. Par­tic­i­pants will have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to in­clude the name of a per­son or per­sons they would like to re­mem­ber on their T-shirt.

Mark­ers will be pro­vid­ed. All pro­ceeds from the event will go to­wards fund­ing the Vi­tas House Hos­pice op­er­a­tions.

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