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Trini businesses, entertainers in UK campaign to help GBV groups
Monday 15 March 2021
UK-based TT diaspora advocacy group Faith In Our Destiny member Shivdi Singh and her son, Tejas Healy-Singh, in an image for the campaign #WeHaveNotForgottenYou.
WHEN a group of UK-based Trini business owners and entertainers saw reporting on recent events of violence against women and girls back home in TT, they decided they had to do something.
The group of advocates joined together to form the group Faith In Our Destiny to support the growing movement to call for action to protect the country’s women.
“Trinbagonian women are being raped, sexually assaulted, abused, and murdered at alarming rates with not enough being done to stop it! It is evident the country is facing a gender-based violence crisis,” the group said in a statement.
TT’s new superhero is a Jumbie The
character of Giselle Anderson, right, and her superhero alter ego Jumbie.
BACK in 2017 when husband/wife animation team Everard McBain and Dixie-Ann Archer-McBain pitched their science-fiction superhero series, Celflux, for a panel at the annual Animae Caribe festival, one of the judges said their concept trailer sounded too foreign and should have Trinidadian voices. And while McBain did not agree with having local voices simply for the sake of doing so, the comment inspired him to revisit his plan to create a TT hero. And thus, the character of Jumbie was born.
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