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Heartline Magazine October - December 2007
Silver dollars for children 2007
The Silver Dollars for Children drive,
organized by the Kiwanis Club of Bridgetown, came off on Sunday
October 14, 2007. Now an annual event, the fundraising drive was
originally slated for Sunday, September 23, but was postponed.
Persons were invited to contribute to
children’s charities by placing one Barbados silver dollar along
a specially cordoned off mile of highway between Bay Street and
the Garrison Savannah. The starting point was directly opposite
Government Headquarters, where at 7 a.m. the first coin was
laid. The drive ended around 6 in the evening.
Kiwanis President Roy Ward reminded those
gathered at the opening ceremony that the focus of the effort
was on the young, thus the theme: “One inch for every child”.
For that reason, children from a number of children’s homes,
organizations and communities were specially invited to attend
and to lay the first coins. Among those was 11-year-old Michael
Clarke, who recently suffered a stroke, and who is making good
recovery progress in the CDP&R programme of monitored exercise
and counseling at the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados.
 Steady
rain throughout the day put a damper on participation by the
public, but altogether a sterling effort was put in by the
volunteers, and the event went well. Although the goal of a mile
of coins was not fully achieved, the results were satisfying,
and the Kiwanis Club of Bridgetown will shortly be announcing
just how much they are able to distribute to the various
charities.
In addition to the Heart & Stroke Foundation
of Barbados, other charities to benefit from the drive are The
Learning Centre, the Barbados Cancer Society, the Hope
Foundation, The Asthma Association of Barbados, the Barbados
Council for the Disabled, the Dyslexia Association and HIV/AIDS.
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