The Anguilla Lions club hosted its first flash mob dance on November 15th 2014. The club members hope to make it an annual activity as another one of its youth’s initiatives. Students from the six Primary Schools on the island were brought together to unite through dance. The main objectives were to promote positive lifestyles and encourage unity among young people. Throughout the year the primary schools are made to compete against each other for prizes and bragging rights but rarely are they encouraged to come together in the spirit of unity. Primary schools are iconic of the communities in which they are located and as such bringing these students together signifies the bringing together of the communities.
Lion Civilla Kentish, Leo Club Advisor chaired the event while Lion Ernie Hodge-Carty 1st Vice President provided an overview of the activity and highlighted the importance of uniting our youths. With the emphasis being on the youths, invited to address the students were The Caricom Youth Ambassadors, Ms. Rochelle Rogers who in her short and to the point message spoke on living positively, respectfully and avoiding drugs. The second youth speaker Mr. Clemvio Hodge, who is also a Caricom Youth Ambassadors from the Anguilla National Youth Council, encouraged the youth to live a life free of violence.
Lion Civilla also took the opportunity to address the gathering briefly about diabetes in observance of World Diabetes Day and stressed the importance of exercise and diet.
The spectators were very appreciative of the individual group performances in dance. In the end all schools combined to dance the electric slide which was the main attraction for the flash mob dance.
The Anguilla Lions Club would like to thank all parents and guardians for allowing and supporting their children to unite through dance and the teachers for accepting with much enthusiasm this initiative. The club would like to also thank the Social Security board for allowing them the use of their parking lot to host the event.
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