Today the Belize Bar Association, along with the Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers launched the Walk for Haiti Initiative. The goal of the 5K walk is to raise funds to aid in the relief efforts in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew, which devastated the island nation last month. Haiti has been victim to several major natural disasters in the last 10 years, including a devastating earthquake in 2010. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to CAJO, who is working in conjunction with a Trinidad based NGO called "Is There Not A Cause". President of the Belize Bar Association, Pricilla Banner told us more about the initiative.
Pricilla Banner - President of the Belize Bar Association
"CAJO is an association of judicial officers, judges, court admins etc., and they're the ones that actually contacted us, and now we have the, CAJO has the support of the Bar Association of Belize, the Police Department, the Belize City Council and of course the judiciary. Essentially what they're trying to do is to raise funds to support these causes in Trinidad and Tobago. There are a lot of needs in terms of medical assistance needed, supplies, infrastructure, I mean the list goes on and on. So, essentially, CAJO is supporting that fundraising initiative and the funds will be channeled through Is There Not A Cause an organization in Trinidad and Tobago which will be distributing the funds."
Andrea Palanco, reporter
"Is there a target that you guys would like to meet?"
Pricilla Banner - President of the Belize Bar Association
"Well to be quite honest, if we can get a million dollar I'd be happy with it, but of course that is not realistic. We want to give as much support as possible, and I think it's important not only for the fundraising itself, I think it's important that people come out, and as Justice Saunders said In the presentation that you saw, this is a tripartite initiative. It has a tripartite purpose. Some of them latent and some blatant. The latent is that it's good for exercise, and it's good for the comradery of the Belize Bar Association, the Judiciary and Members of the public. It's good to build a sort of good will with members of the public whom we serve and who we work with every day."
The 5K walk will take place on Saturday December 3rd, and will leave from the Supreme Court building on Regent Street at 6am.
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