“I said to myself, ‘Some people are worse off than you’. I had the change, so I just give it.”
Last Friday, those were the sentiments of a woman after she had made a contribution into The Salvation Army bucket that was being manned by St Lucy Salvationist Rudolph Gibbons outside Cave Shepherd, Broad Street, The City,
in the Army’s 2020 Christmas Kettle fundraising drive.
Her thoughts were undoubtedly similar to the thinking of many locals who, despite the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, responded steadily to the bell-ringing of the Army’s volunteers outside various stores and supermarkets, placing their bills and coins into the iconic red containers.
The Army’s new Divisional Commander Major Brenda Greenidge, who took up the appointment in September with responsibility for operations in Barbados and St Lucia, said the annual year-end appeal here was already “doing well”. (SNR)
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