ANSA McAL Foundation

The ANSA MCAL Foundation’s major initiative is the funding and administration of the Anthony N Sabga Awards – Caribbean Excellence. Since the first laureates were awarded in 2006, it has supported and recognized 57 exceptional Caribbean people with awards of over TT$28 million. 

Since inception, the Foundation has been committed to addressing a broad range of social needs. In recent times it has adopted a policy of concentrating on projects of national and regional significance.

The Foundation was created by the 1993 merger of the ANSA Foundation, formed in 1986, to assist charitable causes and the McAL Foundation, formed with similar aims in 1981. A year later Dr. Sabga was responsible for the rejuvenation of the Guardian Neediest Cases Fund, a long-standing charitable project of the Trinidad Publishing Company Limited, publisher of the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian.

Notable achievements include:

• Establishing the ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre at UWI, St. Augustine.
• Benefactor of the ANSA McAL wing of The Diagnostic, Research, Education Centre for the Hearing Impaired (DRETCHI) for the Trinidad and Tobago Association for the Deaf.
• Significant support for The Princess Elizabeth Home for Handicapped Children; SERVOL; the Jaya Lakshmi Children’s Home; Junior Achievement of Trinidad and Tobago; The Living Water Community Food Assistance Relief (FAR) Project; the Blood Bank and Trinidad and Tobago Cancer Society.
• A founding member of the UWI Institute of Business.

The Foundation is chaired by Mr Andrew Sabga, Deputy Chairman of the ANSA McAL Group.

Its Patron is Mr A Norman Sabga (LLD, Hon, UWI), Chairman of the ANSA McAL Group.

From 1991 to 2003 the Foundation received 1% of the profit of the ANSA McAL Group. By investing this endowment, the Foundation is now self-financing, and able to undertake in perpetuity the significant commitment of the Anthony N Sabga Awards – Caribbean Excellence programme.

BOARD OF THE ANSA McAL FOUNDATION

• Mr Andrew Sabga (Chairman)
• Mrs Linda Sabga-Hadeed
• Mr Nabeel A Hadeed
• Mr Garth Chatoor
• Mrs Diana Mahabir-Wyatt
• Mr Nigel Sabga
• Fr Ronald Mendes
• Mrs Maria Superville-Neilson, Secretary