Keisha Hill, Staff Reporter

THE SECOND staging of the St. Andrew Care Centre Charity (SACC) Golf Tournament and Family Fun Day will tee off at the Caymanas Golf and Country Club on Saturday, October 20.

Title sponsor, the RJR Communications Group, has teamed up with the Jamaica Golf Association, associate sponsors Digicel and the Jamaica National Building Society and a growing list of other sponsors to raise $5 million for this year's event.

One hundred and eight participants in two-man teams will take part in the 18-hole event including national players, corporate executives, prominent sports and entertainment personalities and regular club golfers.

Chairman of the SACC fundraising committee, Lester Spalding, who is also chairman and managing director of the RJR Group, told The Gleaner that, "through direct sponsorship the committee has raised about 60 per cent or $3.5 million of the target so far".

Remediation, socialisation

That money will go towards the SACC which over the past six years has been involved in registering and referring more than 380 'street boys' between nine and 18 years to agencies equipped to provide them with remediation and socialisation in preparation for entry into other facilities which are more equipped to offer social, psychological, education and training interventions.

"These boys are at risk on the streets - so it is in corporate Jamaica's interest to see to their care and re-socialisation into mainstream society," Spalding said.

Tournament entry forms are available at the Jamaica Golf Academy in New Kingston and the Caymanas and Constant Spring Golf Clubs.