With the schools opening in September, there is a scramble to deliver bags and supplies to students by politicians and philanthropists.
Phillip "Fadda" Henry falls into the latter category, and as President of The School Safety Programme, partnered with Quick Stop to provide students with back to school essentials like bags, pencils, and books. He did so today at BTL park and we stopped in:
Marina Pacheco, Marketing Leader, Quick Stop Finance Center
"Last week we met Mr Henry and he was actually trying to get donations in regards to school bags. He was short 240 school bags for his back to school program that he has launched from since June so when he told me about it he started to talk about what he is actually doing trying to get the kids off the streets and you know helping them with traffic and all of that. It is a good summer program when I dug into it and we decided to assist him with those 240 school bags and you know its time for back to school so I thought it was a fantastic initiative for us to play our little roll nothing too big but it's something right?"
"Children are our future so hopefully it helps them in a way even though it is start basically so it warms our heart to give back."
Phillip "Fadda"Henry, President of School Safety Programme
"I continue to educate children in schools how they can protect themselves from human trafficking and trafficking safety, teaching them about the pedestrian crossing and sidewalk walking, how to walk in groups and not walk single file by yourself to protect yourself from people doing wrong out here when school closed I go directly into summer program which means if it closes the 12th of June all the children who were in school sign up so I signed up 500."
"Quick stop is one of the our biggest sponsors, Quick Stop came in at the last moment and donated $5000 in school bags, 240 school bags which we are trying to meet everyone but we couldn't because there are people out here who didn't even get tickets because of the chaos that we have families that cannot afford but the children came out to get a school bag and books."
