THE annual MultiCare Foundation Lunch Hour Concert staged last Thursday at the Institute of Jamaica once again featured several high-class performances from the schools that participated. Some 180 boys and girls from the 31 MultiCare-assisted schools showed off their talents in dance, poetry and music.

Among the many outstanding highlights was the performance by drummers Marlon Williams and Rashed Whyte of Ascot High School who delivered a brilliant rendition demonstrating their mastery of the drums and their musical competence. The students from St Jude’s Primary also dazzled with a delightful, engaging traditional folk dance.

Windward Road Primary & Junior High School gave a spectacular performance with their carnival number, and came back for an encore to great audience acclaim with a popular dance item. The students from Dunoon Technical High School was regal in long black robes with coloured head ties as they performed a riveting Kumina dance number.

Poems and dialect presentations from Ascot Primary and Haile Selassie High respectively, rocked the audience, while Waterford High School’s drama presentation gave the audience serious food for thought.

The annual MultiCare concert was held as part of the Institute of Jamaica’s Lunch Hour Concert series, and is one of two staged annually by the MultiCare Foundation to showcase the talents and achievements of children from the MultiCare-assisted schools who participate in the MultiCare Performing Arts Programme. The programme’s objective is to recognise the potential in each child and to help them identify and develop their talents, self-confidence and self-esteem.

Endowed by Lime Jamaica, ICD Group Limited and Caribbean Cement Company Limited, the MultiCare Foundation is committed to facilitating the creating of opportunities for Jamaica’s disadvantaged but motivated young people to channel their energies and efforts towards their personal development and that of the communities in which they live.