Capital & Credit Raises $1.8 Million for Dare to Care

The Capital & Credit Financial Group (CCFG) has raised over $1.8 million for the  Mustard Seed Communities’ Dare to Care Homes from the audited proceeds from its seventh annual charity concert “Pickney Love at Christmas”. 

Chairman & Group President of CCFG, Ryland T. Campbell C.D., presented the $1.8 million cheque to Executive Director of Mustard Seed, Father Gregory Ramkisoon and Dare to Care’s Donna Reynolds, on Wednesday, May 20, 2009, at the Group’s 6-8 Grenada Way Office in Kingston.

Senior Executives at Capital & Credit Financial Group and Representatives from the Mustard Seed Communities celebrate the proceeds of the “Pickney Love at Christmas” on Wednesday  May 20, at CCFG’s  Kingston Office.  

Seen here (l-r) are: SVP Group Marketing & Corporate Affairs, Michelle Wilson-Reynolds; Executive Director of the Mustard Seed, Father Gregory Ramkisson; Deputy Group President, Andrew Cocking; Dare to Care’s Donna Reynolds; CCFG Chairman, Ryland T. Campbell C.D.; Deputy Executive Director of Mustard Seed, Darcy Tulloch-Williams; Fab 5’s Grub Cooper and Deputy Group President, Curtis Martin.
 

The cheque represents the total funds raised by Capital & Credit from the 2008 Concert and has increased the total amount raised and donated by the Group since the inception of the Concert in 2002, to over $7.2 million.  Each year Capital & Credit plans and underwrites the total cost of staging this event and after auditing by Deloitte & Touche, which performs this task as its annual contribution, the proceeds are handed over to Dare to Care.  

 “I am encouraged that although it has been a rough financial season for most persons, we were able to lobby support from a wide cross section of society to be able to hand over to Dare to Care our largest contribution yet from the event,” Senior Vice President for Group Marketing and Corporate Affairs at CCFG, Michelle Wilson- Reynolds said at the Cheque Hand -Over Presentation.  

Since 2002, all the proceeds from this special charity event have been donated to the Dare to Care Homes for abandoned children living with HIV/AIDS. Over the years, the funds have been used to purchase anti-retroviral medication; provide the children with psycho-social counselling; educational needs and transportation. Dare to Care was established in 1999 as a hospice to care for 14 children who were either HIV positive or who had AIDS. Since then, the facility has been expanded to three homes (two in Kingston and one in Spanish Town) and now caters to some 65 children ranging from 18-months to 16 years old, who due to the health care provided have been enjoying long and healthier life spans.