The Tribune

By JEFFARAH GIBSON

Tribune Features Reporter

jgibson@tribunemedia.net

PUTTING on spectacular performances and winning parades is not the only priority for members of the Shell Saxon Superstars. Giving back to the community is and will remain high on the list of things to do for the Saxon

Bellers and the Kananga Saxons, male choreograph dancers.
The two groups came together to host a Back 2 School Jamboree on August 31 at the Masons Addition park. During the event there was free food, free hair cuts and hair braiding, and school supplies were distributed to the community’s children.

The two sections consist of young men ages 19-42 who chose to develop a community program with their own financial means. The Kananga Saxons consists of a group of young professionals, college students and graduates who formed within the Saxons organisation in 2008 to develop a male choreographed dance section.

The Kananga Saxons hosts community services every month and community work for the National Trust, Simpson Penn School for Boys and a few others. However this is the first community service event for the Saxons Bellers.

“We gave out refurbished computers sourced from the corporate community for the high achievers as well as all school supplies, food, drinks entertainment, music, a bouncing castle and a Junkanoo rush out at the end. We have also been joined lately by the Zion Baptist Church off East and Shirley Street and we hope to develop an ongoing educational programme between all of these entities,” said Jameko Smith, member of the Saxons Bellers.

He said the sections joined forces to give back to the community, because the community has done a great deal as it relates to the development and advancement of the Shell Saxons Superstars, he told Tribune Entertainment.
“We decided to give something back to the community that we represent in Junkanoo because Masons Addition has given so much to us and we felt a need to give back as brothers, fathers, uncles. The members of Kananga Saxons and the Saxons Bellers have a vested interest in ensuring that we assist in the preparation of students as they return to school from their summer break. We are also of the view that all of society’s stakeholders stand to benefit from investing in the county’s future leaders including the corporate community,” he told Tribune Entertainment.

Mr Smith said its is a pleasure for the sections to give back to the community which they consider the “foundation for society”.

“If there is no one to nurture and guide the young men and women in the community the social fabric of society is weakened and we all will pay in the long run.

“We all fall under the group of the Shell Saxon Superstars and the history is rich with the contributions that the Saxons has given to the Masons Addition community but most importantly providing an incubator for the youth of the areas to express, educate, and learn leadership skills for themselves,” he said.