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UG students donate over 800 books to orphanages
The children with their books with the university students, all decked out in their ECHO t-shirts.
A group of University of Guyana (UG) students on Tuesday embarked on a one-day book drive to promote literacy at several orphanages, mainly those within the city.
The project titled “Educating Children; Helping Others” (ECHO) was part of the students’ English coursework to promote literacy as a tool to combat social ills in society.
First-year Biology student and coordinator of the exercise, Vickita Nandan, said that the book drive is in response to the national need to address the problem of illiteracy, particularly among the less fortunate.
Nandan, along with
group members, Christina Karamchand, Subraj Singh, Kirk Jarvis, Nandanie Jerry, Dennon Lewis and Reshma Persuad donated in excess of 800 volumes to children at the Shaheed Boys and Girls orphanages, the Ruimveldt Children’s Home and Care Centre and the Sophia Care Centre.
Nandan urged the children to make reading a habit, noting that is the first step of the journey to becoming the successful people they aspire to be in life. She noted that it is a process through which students expand their horizon of learning, become informed citizens, and make wise decisions.
She also impressed upon the orphans that reading does not only aid in building students vocabulary but also provides them with vital communication, interpersonal, critical thinking and negotiation skills.
The project which is being executed under the Heptagon Research Agency, a body formed for the completion of the ENG 123 course at UG, also involves monitoring the use of the books as well as the progress being made to improve the literacy standard of the children at the targeted orphanages.
Nandan is also hoping that the effort of her group will provide the impetus for more private and public sector organizations to get on board the drive to empower the vulnerable populace through education and by extension make Guyana a more literate nation.
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