To get work off to a fast start, senior management and administration staff led by CEO Charles Pink, and Managing Director, Oliver Jordan, all members of the banks Executive Leadership Team (ELT), traded their laptops for paintbrushes, hammers and other tools and descended on the Stanford, St. Philip facility. From early in the morning, the team worked alongside students currently residing in the 60-year-old building to complete a number of projects, including re-painting the tennis court, installing mesh screens in the induction dormitory, and painting the computer room.

Teen Challenge Director, Stephen Gilkes, who also joined in the work, said the drug rehab centre was very thankful for the assistance, noting it was important to have the right environment for success. He said every aspect of the work was important - a functional computer lab, induction dorm to welcome new students, and even the tennis court as a recreational facility.

It is a recreational facility which is very pivotal towards any component of recovery. Now what it does help us to do, is to offer the same leadership team at FirstCaribbean to come from time to time and play with our guys, so that we can have that interaction from the society bridging the gap between those at the centre and the community. And trust me, that goes a long way in terms of communicating to our students that they are not ostracised. That they are included and being given a second chance to be integrated into the society. There is no greater therapy than inclusion, when somebody senses that you care, Gilkes said.

Country Head, and Managing Director, Oliver Jordan said over the years, Teen Challenge had given over 400 Barbadian men a second chance at life and FirstCaribbean was honoured to lend its support. Commenting on why Teen Challenge was chosen for the benevolent investment CEO Charles Pink said it was part of the banks three year old adopt-a-cause initiative where annually each branch and business unit of FirstCaribbean was budgeted US $2000 to adopt a cause. People from FirstCaribbean come and work with people in the communities and paint schools, or improve nursing homes. We try and do it with the educational sector or with youth in particular because we know they are our future, Pink said.