Dara On the Need To Feed

We've featured Joel Dara Robinson many times on this newscast as the grassroots philanthropist, who's always collecting food for his school feeding programmes.

But what we didn't know is that Dara's compassion comes from a very deep place: when he was a school boy, he had to go hungry many days, learning how to lie to his schoolmates to tell them what he'd had for lunch so that he wouldn't feel ashamed.

He reveals that - and the pain of growing up in the shadow of an abusive father - in tonight's I am Belize profile:

Untitled from 7News Belize on Vimeo.

The profile series is the joint effort of Fultec systems, this station, Restore Belize and NICH..