Hello everyone, I'm fred davenport W BTM 13, we're talking to Tamara fraser
and she's the owner of cam's cuisine and chick universe investment Alabama.
She has a really big initiative that is coming up where she's going to help
some local high school students when it comes to going to the prom and I'm
going to let her tell you all about it. So hello to you and just go into the
details about your initiative. Yeah. Um Hey um first off, let me just say it is
an honor to be doing this interview and I appreciate you for allowing me the
platform to speak about my initiative. Um What we're doing is called the
Promise scholarship fund. It's going to be sponsored by Sheikh Universe and
camps within both of those are my companies. Um one is the boutique and
the other one is a catering service and private ships service. Um but basically
what we're doing is I want to help send a high school team, It doesn't have to
be a girl specifically. Um I want to go ahead and put that out there. The boys
can apply for this scholarship as well, but just you know, for teams that are
less fortunate. Um and the reason that you know property to do this is because
just looking back my whole senior experience in my high school experience,
it was terrible. Um just to give a small, a brief backstory about myself,
I had a baby and um 10th grade, I had a daughter at 16 years old. Um she's now
14 and I'm just like she getting to that age that I was when I was going
through all this stuff and just thank God that she doesn't have to endure
what I had to endure being that I had her so young, you know, I didn't have
it, everything or every little small amount of money I had went towards, you
know, taking care of my daughter. I was a baby with the baby basically. Um So
when it came time for prom, I didn't have it, I didn't have the funds or
really the means to purchase the prom dress, get the limo, everything else
that my parents were doing, you know, and like I said, kids can be cruel,
like I was being talked about, you know? So I got up in my head one day, I'm
like okay, I went to the mall with a group of friends with people, I thought
were my friends at the time um and I decided to steal a prom dress. Um I'm
not gonna say which mall, but I decided to steal a prom dress and you know, I
want to address the prom plot twist, I still ended up getting talked about
because the girls that were there with me at the mall while I was still in the
dress end up going back telling everybody that I stole my prom dress so
I didn't get any prom pictures, I didn't even enjoy the prom, like I went
but it was just like, I hated it, like because everybody was talking about me,
like you could literally hear the whispers when you walk past. All that
type of stuff. So what a lot of people don't realize is like these are real
life situations just because teams or seniors are not out on their own or
paying bills here. It doesn't mean that they're not dealing with mental health
issues, depression, stuff like that will help send teams into depression.
So I just wanted to be able to give back and help somebody that was in a
situation like me basically, and that's what we're doing with this scholarship
fund. Okay. And so I see you have the gloves on and you also have an umbrella.
It's all a part of where you're going to raise the money, Tell us about the
event, correct? So the name of the album is called Let's Party D. A T E A.
Let's party and brunch. Um So the theme is basically tea party attire and
brunch attire, like just basically, you know, very elegant, classy upstair look.
Um and the reason why I decided to do this event is basically, you know,
something fun and cute to kind of help raise awareness and raise money for
this scholarship. So um a percentage of all the proceeds from this event. Um
ticket sales, all that will go towards helping fund this prawn scholarship. Um
also, so the initial that we want to give is $500 since announcing the prom
scholarship fund just on Facebook. I've already gave um five other women. Five
supporters donors have agreed to come on board. One has agreed to shout out
to Arora photography. Emily Dean, she's agreed to do photography for the prom
for the scholarship winner. We have people agreeing to do nails, makeup,
Alicia Lucas um the realtor she's sponsoring um somebody to get their
nails done I think. So it's getting a lot of attention and a lot of support.
But like I said, we just want to raise awareness to everybody and you know,
let everybody know that hey we're trying to help. I'm trying to help
because I don't, you know, want anybody going stealing a prom dress. We can
help it. So that's right. But yeah this is a tired. Yeah. So when it comes to
the qualifications and the criteria for the scholarship, how can they find that
information? Okay so basically all they have to do is go to my website www dot
sheikh universe dot com. Um And the first thing you'll see when you go and
click on the menu tab, you'll see on the drop down it's gonna say prom
scholarship there. You can donate. I have the whole application up on the
screen. So basically what they'll have to do is they have to tell me um their
name, their age, what school they attend their G. P. A. And basically
it's like a three part essay. But I broke it up into where they can just
enter it in in the paragraph sections. Or they can upload a file if they would
like upload a word document or whatever. But basically they have to tell me what
makes them unique. What was the hardest obstacle that they had to overcome as a
high school senior this year And what makes them you know qualified. And why
should they receive the promise scholarship? Alright. Is there anything
else? Um. Yes also I forgot to tell them the day and time of the event. The
actual event um that we're using to help fund this scholarship program. The
let's party and brunch. It's gonna be on March 13th from 1 to 5 p.m. It looks
ultra lounge. Um So tickets are on sale right now. We're doing an early bird
special. That sale actually ends tomorrow. Um So they want to head over
to the website and purchase those tickets as well. They're on the website.
Same drop down menu will stay event tickets. And then also anybody who
can't attend the event but still finds in their heart to want to donate to our
calls can't actually go on the website and click donate as well. So it will
greatly appreciate it. Okay and like I said all of this information will be
posted on our website that's W. V. Tm. 13 dot com. You'll have a great evening
and take care