January 27th 2016, The Valley Anguilla – On Saturday, February 20th, 2016, Renuka Harrigan, founder of the Arijah Children’s Foundation will be hosting the second annual Love Tennis Tournament in support of the Centre sponsored by Digicel.
The tournament was an arousing success last year and promises to be even more effective this year. The purpose of the name, ‘LOVE Tennis’ is marked towards children with special needs, for the game of tennis, and Love for the Arijah Children’s Foundation. On Tuesday the foundation received a donation of US$1500.00. The funds donated was a result of Digicel support towards the Arijah children’s foundation event.
Through the kind and generous donations of many individuals, businesses and community groups, the Arijah’ s Children Foundation opened on September 6, 2010 and today provides daily educational and therapeutic programs and services for Anguilla’s children with special needs. The privately run school has grown tremendously since its inception and remains dependent on corporate funding and support.
Supporting the Arijah second annual love tournament was the brain child of Digicel’s Head of Commercial, Kerchelle Jn C harles. She stated that “Education and special needs are at the forefront of Digicel’s undertakings for 2016. It is so very important for us to support all special needs foundations within our society. Activities such as these are important because they bring the students out of their homes and classrooms to socialize with each other, offer invaluable support to each other and of course to simply have a good time. Digicel has been a great supporter of the Arijah’s Children foundation for the past two years and I am happy to once again be on board this major event”
Marketing Executive Roxanne Webster commented, The Digicel team is always happy to show support to the youth and fostering of young children in Anguilla. We are proud to be involved with this initiative and it gives us great pleasure to know that the students will be able to get this uplifting experience as well as support towards the foundation.”
– Press Release
(Published without editing by The Anguillian newspaper.)
