KITTITIAN AND NEVISIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS CONTRIBUTE TO CARIBBEAN TOURISM ORGANIZATION HURRICANE RELIEF FUND

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (23 May, 2018) – Students from St. Kitts & Nevis pursuing studies at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies in Barbados have thrown their support behind the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO)’s ongoing efforts to help Caribbean families and countries recover and rebuild after last year’s monstrous hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated some member destinations.

The St. Kitts-Nevis Students’ Association (SKNSA) has made a cash donation of the equivalent of US$600 to the CTO Hurricane Relief Fund, following a fundraiser, which included a “We Care” benefit concert. The association also received donations from the Leeward Islands Students Association of Trinidad & Tobago at UWI in St Augustine, Trinidad.

“We wanted to do something for the affected countries in the region, we wanted to give back to show we really care, and although we are small in numbers we can do a lot,” Dennis McCall Jr, the outgoing SKNSA president said.

The CTO collects donations through the CTO Relief Fund for relief efforts in any of our member countries affected by hurricanes, and to assist other Caribbean countries affected by natural disasters. The CTO Relief Fund has “501(c)(3)” status in the United States, which means it has been approved by the United States Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt, charitable organisation.

“We’d like to offer our gratitude to the St. Kitts Nevis Students Association for their generous donation to the CTO Relief Fund. It is heartwarming to see the care and attention that people throughout the caribbean are paying to this really important cause and, most especially, to see we have engaged the attention and the generosity and compassion of the young people,” Hugh Riley, the CTO’s secretary general said.

“They are the future of the Caribbean and they are as concerned about the well-being of the Caribbean as the rest of us are and they are doing something about it, and we are eternally grateful.”