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  • GFLF Takes 10 Children’s Homes To Tobago

    GFLF Takes 10 Children’s Homes To Tobago

    Gift For Life Foundation (GFLF) strongly believes that children who are placed in the different children’s homes throughout the country need that extra human touch. The benefits of the human touch to a child’s health are phenomenal. It can reassure, relax and comfort to reduce depression, anxiety, stress and physical…

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  • Empowering Girls For Miss Gift For Life Pageant 2016

    Empowering Girls For Miss Gift For Life Pageant 2016

    JUNIOR MISS GIFT FOR LIFE: ANGEL GEORGE 2ND PLACE: MEKEDA BRAITHWAITE SENIOR MISS GIFT FOR LIFE QUEEN: SHEREECE THOMPSON 1ST RUNNER UP: NICKEOLA JOBENT 2ND RUNNER UP: KERDISHA GORDON Once again, Gift for Life Foundation (GFLF) instills elegance in the teenage girls from different Children’s Homes. Thirteen (13) girls were…

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  • Gift for Life Foundation celebrates Valentine’s Day

    Gift for Life Foundation celebrates Valentine’s Day

    Giving love to children remains the motto for members of the ‘Gift for Life Foundation’ (GFLF). On Valentine’s Day, 14th February 2016, children from various Children’s Homes were treated in style at a Chinese Restaurant by GFLF. Children were all dressed up beautifully to celebrate each other. GFLF encourages children…

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  • Chaguanas Chamber of Commerce Award

    Chaguanas Chamber of Commerce Award

     In December 2015, the Gift for Life Foundation was honored by the Chaguanas Chamber of Commerce for it’s Community Works. The award was received by the secretary of the Gift for Life Foundation – Mrs. Asha Rickhi, and presented by the Honorable Minister of Trade & Industry, The Honorable Paula-Gopie-Scoon, for…

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  • GFLF Waves Christmas Wand

    GFLF Waves Christmas Wand

    Gift For Life Foundation Waves the Christmas Wand to 20 Children’s Homes From the 20th of December to 28th of December 2015, GIFT FOR LIFE FOUNDATION was able to spread the Christmas magic to very deserving children and teens across twenty (20) children’s homes. On Christmas Day, Gift For Life…

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  • GFLF Puts Smiles on Faces

    GFLF Puts Smiles on Faces

    Gift for Life Again Puts Smiles on Faces On Sunday 1 November, 2015 GFLF hosted an evening filled with positive emotions that children will never forget. An evening where children gathered from thirteen Children’s Home at the Green Meadows Ranch, Santa Cruz as one big family together with kind sponsors…

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  • Children’s Annual Sports Day

    Children’s Annual Sports Day

    “Sport is the greatest tool we have in today’s society to assist in the development of positive character traits and life values among children.” says Mr. Vivik Ragoonanan, one of the Directors of the Gift for Life Foundation (GFLF). “No other place affords them the opportunity to soak up as…

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  • Unity Among Children

    Unity Among Children

    GFLF encourages unity among children from diversified culture, ethnicity and race. Gift for Life Foundation (GFLF) fosters a safe and positive environment in which groups of children from eleven (11) different homes can achieve personal growth. Children have been intrigued by sand for many generations, especially the white, ‘anti-aging’, sand…

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  • GFLF Starts Fund for Girls

    GFLF Starts Fund for Girls

    The ‘Gift for Life Foundation’ (GFLF) once again offers a unique blend of glamour and elegance, (contrary to the traditional world of pageantry) to teenage girls among different Children’s Homes. With great difficulty, these girls from various homes were trained and shortlisted to only 15 participants. Empowering young women, while…

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