Stella Maris principal Francella Cantun accepts a financial donation for the college from Nigy Boy, delivered by Soca & Tradition Pageant co-founder Omar Arzu for the establishment.
Picture by Sasha Eiley
Nigy Boy delivered greater than a spellbinding efficiency on the tenth Annual Soca & Tradition Pageant for the greater than 4,000 patrons on the Civic Heart in Belize final Friday, the place he carried out alongside Mr. Vegas and Byron Lee & The Frontliners with Oscar B, Lima and Leon Coldero.
The New York-based visually-impaired artist made a shock go to to Stella Maris, a 66-year-old particular wants, government-run establishment in Belize, the place he delivered a peep discuss and an impromptu efficiency for college kids and employees on the establishment.
Nigy was so impressed by his go to to the college that, throughout his efficiency on the Soca & Tradition Pageant, he made a financial donation to pageant co-founder Omar Arzu for the establishment.
“I used to be moved to make the financial donation after visiting the college and simply getting an opportunity to satisfy with the scholars, particularly a visually impaired scholar that I had a transferring dialog with,” Nigy Boy instructed Caribbean Life.
“Stella Maris is the one faculty within the nation that’s self-contained and has solely college students with particular wants attending,” mentioned Principal Francella Cantun. “We’ve got college students with visible impairment, speech impediments, down’s syndrome, autism, mental disabilities, bodily disabilities, simply to call a number of.
“We actually respect Nigy’s type gesture and his heat coronary heart that he has for youngsters with particular wants,” Cantun added. “I need him to know that our college students are impressed by him being legally blind and turning into so fashionable and well-known. They now know that they are often like him, and at the moment are motivated to be one of the best model of themselves.”
Soca & Tradition Fest co-founder Arzu, who hand delivered the financial donation to principal Cantun three days later, in a YouTube video interview with Love FM, Belize mentioned, “There are all the time folks on the market who say these artists come to our nation and all they do is take away, take away.
“I encourage to vary as a result of I’ve skilled some artists (like Nigy Boy) that give again,” he added.
