And while the National Women's Commission is going for its third intake, grassroots philanthropist Dara Robinson is having his fourth annual Lucky Dube DVD tribute concert - except this year he's doubling it up with a Gregory Isaacs Tribute. The Gregory event is happening on Saturday and Lucky Dube's event is on Sunday night - both at the MCC tennis court and it's all to support his food collection drive.
To get things off to a rolling start, he's set up on the bandstand in the battlefield park every afternoon soliciting donation of items for the drive and we met him there today where he made his pitch and discussed social realities:…
Dara Robinson
"I am asking anybody; the people, the businesses, the churches to get involve with me. I myself usually full a little barrel for the normal delivery, it seems like a lot but sometime when I start to share it up I conscious that it is not enough. I see where there is a lot more people that I can help. If somebody come here right now with 1 tin of sausage - that is an extra, because Bob says that 'one - one cocoa full a basket'. Never feel like what you are giving is too small. There are 300,000 of us and I am asking everybody to give something, but if a couple hundred of us come together I could make this a success."
Jules Vasquez
"On the need there is acute."
Dara Robinson
"Man, of course, it doesn't matter how people deny it and the government denies it - there is a need out there and people are taking a 'lick'. This is the reason why I say with all that is happening and all the protest - that is the reason why grassroots people don't show up because we worry about our meal on a table the next day - we have our kids to feed. People are struggling out here. Of course we hear the cry and we hear what is happening with the country but people are out here suffering and the basic thing is to get food. So what I am doing - I don't want people to take it likely, it doesn't matter what you do but you have to eat and we have children in Belize that are going through struggle, because if the parents are not providing and are taking 'lick' the what happen to the children? That is my fight - they will be tired of seeing my face Jules but until God take my breathe I will fight for this."
Dara is at the bandstand at the Battlefield Park up to Friday between 1:00 and 5:00 pm. If you can't make it there, you can call him to come and pick up your donated items. His number is 623-3662.
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