Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is scheduled to formally launch the Children's Life Fund on Wednesday afternoon at the Trinidad Hilton.
The fund is one of Persad-Bissessar's landmark projects to which she contributes ten per cent of her salary each month. Members of cabinet donate five per cent of their ministerial incomes.
Since the launch of the fund several organisations have made collections and handed over cheques for the fund. The latest donation of $20,000 came last week from the Arya Pratinidhi Sabha (APS) of Trinidad and Tobago.
The Children's Life Fund was created to provide funding and critical support specifically for children needing life saving, tertiary-level health care services.
The Prime Minister launched the fund in August 2010 and made a point of highlighting the fund during her address to the UN General Assembly 2010.
"It is our belief that children must not die in the dawn of life in my country - or in any other country - because they cannot afford health care," she told delegates.
"There must be new arrangements and relationships between countries that have advanced medical technology and those without so that children and vulnerable groups of the poorest nations can grow as healthy human beings and achieve their full potential.
"It is only when this is done that the world will progress. We have a duty to the future. It will be measured by how we fulfill our responsibilities today...
"Our goal is to raise $100 million in the Life Fund geared towards helping families with children in need of life-saving surgeries. That fund is to be administered by an independent board.
"Private sector incentives will also be established to encourage contributions to the LIFE Fund and partnership arrangements involving foreign specialist hospitals, aimed at increasing knowledge and technology in the local health sector, are to be established."
Earlier in the day, Persad-Bissessar will distribute HDC houses at a function at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Port of Spain.
The fund is one of Persad-Bissessar's landmark projects to which she contributes ten per cent of her salary each month. Members of cabinet donate five per cent of their ministerial incomes.
Since the launch of the fund several organisations have made collections and handed over cheques for the fund. The latest donation of $20,000 came last week from the Arya Pratinidhi Sabha (APS) of Trinidad and Tobago.
The Prime Minister launched the fund in August 2010 and made a point of highlighting the fund during her address to the UN General Assembly 2010.
"It is our belief that children must not die in the dawn of life in my country - or in any other country - because they cannot afford health care," she told delegates.
"There must be new arrangements and relationships between countries that have advanced medical technology and those without so that children and vulnerable groups of the poorest nations can grow as healthy human beings and achieve their full potential.
"It is only when this is done that the world will progress. We have a duty to the future. It will be measured by how we fulfill our responsibilities today...
"Our goal is to raise $100 million in the Life Fund geared towards helping families with children in need of life-saving surgeries. That fund is to be administered by an independent board.
"Private sector incentives will also be established to encourage contributions to the LIFE Fund and partnership arrangements involving foreign specialist hospitals, aimed at increasing knowledge and technology in the local health sector, are to be established."
Earlier in the day, Persad-Bissessar will distribute HDC houses at a function at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Port of Spain.
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