Founder Story — Why SAREN Exists
SAREN is a name built from two names — SA for Sandy Lewars, MSc, and REN drawn from her late mother’s name, carried on in her initials, KMB. Everything about this enterprise begins with her.
Her mother’s life and legacy are the root of Sandy Lewars, MSc’s road to medicine. Sandy Lewars, MSc’s specialty vision is trauma surgery, all the way to her own surgical suite, so that families facing their hardest moments find the care and support hers needed. She is building this to make her mama proud.
Sandy Lewars, MSc is building SAREN from the ground up — a journey from public assistance to enterprise. She is a SNAP recipient, a mother, and a woman who has navigated housing instability. She is 100% Guyanese, Guyanese to the bone, and that heritage pride runs through every division she is building. And she is designing every division from lived experience: the housing she needed, the wellness she could not access, the community infrastructure her neighborhood lacked. This is not an outside investment thesis. It is a from-the-ground-up build by someone who has lived the need.
Sandy Lewars, MSc is actively preparing for the MCAT as part of her path to medical school and trauma surgery. That preparation sits alongside building SAREN and homeschooling her son. Being a mom is her favorite version of herself. Her family comes first, always.
Her drive is relentless and deeply personal: “I’m doing a lot and I’m not sleeping. This must be fruitful.” For Sandy Lewars, MSc, the work is not motion for its own sake; every course, research step, revenue lane and institution-building decision must move her family and community toward a more secure future.
The mission has two pillars. The first is supportive housing for survivors, honored in the planned KMB Residence, named for her mother. The second is mental health, carried by the SarenMind pillar within the planned SAREN Cares structure. Both are built into the plan itself — a permanent commitment to the community SAREN serves.
Her dedications are locked: KMB, her son, her husband of sixteen years, and her aunt. This is a family-built enterprise with a community-scale ambition — and it will not forget the people it is for.