TelEm Group Marketing and Sales Officer, Ms. Cheryl Rismay, (left) presents a World Environment Day T-shirt to St. Maarten Pride Foundation volunteer and past vice-president, Alita Singh, on company grounds Tuesday.
TelEm Group is joining environmentalists all over the world in celebration of World Environment Day today – June 5th .The theme for World Environment Day 2013 is "Think. Eat. Save." to bring attention to food waste and encourage people around the world to educate themselves and improve global food conditions.
In accordance with the theme, TelEm Group is supporting the St. Maarten Pride Foundation and a group of schoolchildren on an agricultural trek to the Reward Estate where they aim to find out all about planting and growing food on St. Maarten.
The visit, with local agriculturist, Joselyn Richardson, is the initiative of the St. Maarten Pride Foundation, who earlier this year collaborated with TelEm Group on a coloring contest with World Environment Day as its focus.
According to TelEm Group Marketing and Sales Officer, Ms. Cheryl Rismay, an art coloring contest was held earlier in the year with a promise that the winning entry would be placed on a T-shirt to mark World Environment Day 2013.
TelEm Group kept its promise Tuesday when the company presented the St. Maarten Pride Foundation with 150 of the specially printed T-shirts for distribution to the public and/or use in a future fundraising drive.
The art coloring contest winner was named as: MAC school student, Noshavyah Winfield,aged 11-years, whose entry was printed on the T-shirt. First Runner-up was Fancia Adamus, aged, 12, and Second Runner-up was Alincia Brooks Ferdinand, aged six-years. Both are from St. Dominic Primary School.
The three winners will be presented with a surprise gift for their efforts at the TelEm Group Building today to once again focus on World Environment Day.
"Congratulations to our winners and to everyone who took part in the coloring contest and also congratulations to the St. Maarten PRIDE Foundation for once again bringing public attention to environmental awareness," said Cheryl.