 After a four-year hiatus, six-plus-sized young ladies will grace the stage and battle for the title of Miss Curves with Confidence. Since 2017, the Alexander Family Foundation and Events AFFE has provided plus-sized women a platform to promote body positivity and self-love. CEO and founder of AFFE, Melissa Alexander, at the Sashin ceremony for this year's show explained that come August 12th, the six young ladies will put on a phenomenal display of grace, poise and talent. This pageant is solely for the purchase of school supplies and to help empower full-figured women. So the funding from this pageant will go directly to purchasing our school supplies for children around Sufra and by extension St. Lucia. On Saturday, sponsors for the 2023 Miss Curves with Confidence pageant dipped for the contestant who will serve as their ambassador during this process. Alexander said this pageant, like any other, provides the contestants with a host of opportunities during and after the journey. With Curves with Confidence, we have selected the winner, I should say, have been to order pageant outside of St. Lucia because we had Annabelle Rawlings that went for Miss Universe in St. Vincent and she won. We have had Portia, which was the second runner up, that went up for Miss Plus Wool in 2022 and she placed second runner up and this year what we are doing, the winner from Miss Curves with Confidence 2023 will be representing St. Lucia in Atlanta. For six young ladies, Michelle Paul, Miss Optimum Events and Rental, Lissia Viget, Miss AFFE, Vanilla Mather, Miss Brand Mi, Tori Gills, Miss Island Time SLU, Cassina Annville, Miss Health Promotions Services Limited and Dora Lawrence, Miss Eco Solutions, say they are all looking forward to what they believe will be a transformational journey. From Sufer FM, I am Jean-Yves Gondzag.