Anguilla News covers Anguilla and the wider
Caribbean.
x
Team
Jamaica Bickle Set To Host Reggae Fundraising Concert
New York, NY, Weds. Feb. 20, 2008: Brooklyn College
Performing Arts Center is set to come alive with the sweet
sounds of reggae music this April as Team Jamaica Bickle,
the New York- based formed some fourteen years ago to assist
our athletes from Jamaica who participates at the Penn
Relays, hosts the concert event of the year - `Team Jamaica
on the Road to Beijing.`
The event is set for Sunday April 20, 2008 at 2900 Campus
Road Brooklyn, New York 11210 from 7 p.m. and aims to funds
to assist with TJB's support of Jamaicans athletes at the
Penn Relays and its scholarship fund that aids Jamaican
runners across the region.
This year, according to TJB founder Irwine Clare, a donation
in honor of the late Olympian, Jamaica's Herb McKenley, will
be made to aid athletes preparing for the Olympics.
Clare urged Jamaican nationals to support the event,
stressing that it's not an ordinary promotion aimed at
pocketing personal cash but a patriotic venture targeted to
help boost Jamaican athletes participating at the Penn
Relays and in the Beijing Olympics.
`Jamaican nationals who get joy in seeing their flags at
Penn and at the Olympics need to support this event since it
is a direct way of helping the athletes and supporters who
make the journey all possible,` added Clare.
The concert will be presented under the Patronage of
Jamaica's new Ambassador to Washington, Anthony Johnson
while Donald Quarrie Jamaica's most eminent Olympian, will
be among the special guest. Supporters for the endeavor
include the Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association and VP
Records.
"This year the challenges for TJB are more difficult as more
is expected of us and as such we have to become more
creative in our fund raising endeavors," commented Clare,
when asked about the reason behind the concert. "TJB is
assisted annually by a core of volunteers who work
assiduously to ensure that 'our athletes, our ambassadors'
are housed, fed, transported and assisted in a manner
consistent with their stature. Additionally, TJB also
provides assistance to athletes on immigration issues,
tuition, medical and other issues. To be able to satisfy
these requests we must raise funds and this is done by
solicitations, sponsorships and general contributions from
the community. In deed this a very daunting task but
nonetheless a necessary one."
Annual corporate include Caribbean Foods Delight, The
Vincent Hosang Family Foundation, VMBS, Jamaica Tourist
Board, Grace Foods, the Union of Jamaican Alumni
Associations, Western Union and Tower Isle Patties among
others.
Additional corporate and civic entities who wish to support
the endeavor can contact 718-523-2861.