Sonia Noel Foundation, Sickle Cell Association partner to raise awareness about disease

The models performing the skit.

Scotiabank’s Robb Street branch on Wednesday played host to a flash mob organised by the Sonia Noel Foundation for Creative Arts in collaboration with the Guyana Sickle Cell Association (GSA) in an effort to raise awareness about the incurable sickle-cell disease.

The performance, dubbed “Breaking the Cycle,” consisted of models who enacted a skit accompanied by a song, depicting the loss of oxygen the blood cells suffer because of the disease.

Event organiser Sonia Noel expressed her concern for those affected by the disease and said that she