Y.W.C.A. will hold fashion show fundraiser

On Friday night, media personalities, community leaders, athletes and even some well known business persons will be strutting their stuff on the catwalk … all in the name of charity. The event, called a Celebrity Benefit Fashion Showcase and Awards Ceremony, is in aid of the Y.W.C.A.’s early leavers programme. The Y’s First Vice President Beverly Brown told us more.

Beverley Brown, 1st Vice President, St. John?s College
?It?s one of the programmes that is heavily in debt and we need lots of money to run the programme because of the nature of the programme. It?s skills based as well as some academic. We have that P.S.E. that students write the P.S.E. in that programme and we also do skills in hospitality, cosmetology, and sewing, so we need lots of money to buy raw materials so that the students can practice their skills.?

Kendra Griffith, Reporting
?I understand that there will be different categories in the show, tell me a bit about that.?

Beverley Brown
?We have one called express yourself and this one you will express yourself just as the name says and you express yourself in whatever costume of outfit you wear. Then we have the any hat will do aspect of it, where models will be modelling any hat. And I mean any hat, big, small, whatever, any hat will do. We have share your culture. This is where the embassies will take part and they will dress in their traditional outfits and model.?

The show gets underway at eight Friday night at the Princess Hotel. Tickets are fifteen dollars in advance and twenty at the door for adults, while kids twelve and under pay ten.