By: Spokesman Newsroom
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (Friday 25th June 2021) — Well-known media personality and entertainer Maurice ‘EK’ Flanders, founder of Real Right Entertainment, has started a food drive distribution programme on St. Kitts inspired by his desire to see to the well-being of children in families who are in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking on ‘Issues’ on Freedom FM on Monday 21st June, Flanders said: “We are not doing this for any praise. We just want to help people, and for me it is about the children because I have always maintained that if parents go through hard times, sometimes it falls on the children.”
Flanders described a fully contactless delivery system: “For the deliveries, we don’t want to have any interaction with anybody at any home. We are going to get the vaccinated delivery team together, and they are going to contact you via telephone — get your directions, get your house. Once we have the correct home, we drop off the stuff on your doorstep or outside your gate, and we leave. The only thing, just message back and say ‘package received.’ We are not doing this for any praise. Just message back to say you got it.”
Flanders spoke candidly about his motivation: “For people who have been through tough times and know how hunger go, and sometimes you eat and you no see you mother eat nothing — you don’t even know if she eat or not until you come a big man or woman — that’s what drives me. For me it is about the children, and as a father I have always maintained that whatever it is that I can do to help, I will. A lot of people ain’t working since March, a lot of people are falling on tough times.” NEMA National Disaster Coordinator Abdias Samuel commended EK’s efforts, saying: “EK has brought the light by putting his money where his mouth is throughout this socially conscious endeavour and to him we say well done — may God richly bless you.” NEMA encouraged persons in isolation, quarantine or impacted by the economic challenges of the pandemic to call NEMA at 466-5100, EK himself, or Social Development and Gender Affairs to receive a package.