St Kitts: Sprinter Shelly-Ann participates in gifts distribution to children on Christmas

St. Kitts and Nevis: On the auspicious occasion of Christmas 2022, Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce shared a beautiful and heart-warming pictures from her visit to the place where she participated in a gift-distributing ceremony to over 600 Kids.

St. Kitts and Nevis: On the auspicious occasion of Christmas 2022, Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce shared beautiful and heart-warming pictures from her visit to the place where she participated in a gift-distributing ceremony to over 600 Kids.

Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce is a well-known, celebrated athlete born in Kingston, Jamaica. She has been recognized in the Caribbean as Double Olympic Gold Medallist in Beijing and London. She has also participated in the four Olympic Games and has been nine (9) times World Champions in sprinting.

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As per the post shared by Shelly-Ann, during the Christmas celebration, ‘Grace foods’, a subsidiary of Grace Kennedy Limited (the Caribbean’s leading food manufacturer and distributor since 1922), has taken the initiative of providing over six hundred (600) children with a number of gifts and other presents. 

 

As per the shared information, Grace Foods presented children with a full day of hot dogs for their meal along with popcorn, snow cone, rice and peas with fried chicken and macaroni and cheese with salad, chicken soup, and unlimited juices and water.

The children were treated with good quality food for the entire day to ensure their enjoyment and love, and compassion from the organization. Furthermore, Grace Foods (Grace Kennedy) also took it to provide appropriate presents to the young as their ages.

The kids were presented with suitable gifts and toys, which made them very happy during the celebration and provided them with a wholesome experience. 

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As per the updates, an activity and recreational area were also set up during the event, where kids spent their time and had fun playing games and activities with Santa Clause.

A person was impersonated as Santa during the celebrations and gifts distribution ceremony organized by Grace Foods and interacted with the kids in games. Santa also gave the kids snacks from his sack of gifts throughout the day.

Moreover, Digicel provided five bouncy houses and an inflatable obstacle course for the children, while Eon & Robbie added a colourful touch of face painting. It was conveyed that No child went home without a gift from the SFP Pocket Rocket Foundation (Represented by Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce) is associated with Grace Foods.

In the end, the older children received branded NIKE drawstring bags, purple for the girls and black and grey for the boys. Shelly concluded the post by adding and thanking her sponsors for their efforts to change society by participating in the event.

Shelly added,  ‘’Once again, I thank my Sponsors this year, NIKE, GraceKennedy, Digicel, Excelsior, Rubis, Toyota Jamaica, Scoops Unlimited and Sagicor, making both the Ewarton and Waterhouse Christmas Treat a tremendous success.’’ 

 

Tariq Saeed

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