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Sep 05, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Why some people have to live in darkness? Why some people are deprived of the basic necessity of life? These are the questions that haunt me always.
I worked in Aishalton Secondary School as a volunteer for a year. It was a wonderful experience being there with the indigenous people. These people are very welcoming and warm. I experienced this while I was there, especially in the school.
This school is exceptionally excellent in its administration and efficacy. I worked in Georgetown in one of the top schools, from this I draw a conclusion that the school in Aishalton is far better then the school I worked first.
The school has a highly qualified headmaster who has a Masters in English from the prestigious University of Leeds, but he is very simple and humble man.
He is indeed a man with excellent courage and administration skills.
There is also a hostel to facilitate the children from different villages. There are more then a 100 children living in the hostel. The hostel has just two buildings one for boys the other for girls. I happened to enter the dormitory and I was terrified to look at the condition in terms of ventilation especially in the summer. It was too stuffy inside and no proper ventilation.
Children in the hostel have to finish their daily chorus by 6 pm, thereafter darkness hovers all over the place because there in no light. I enquired about this and some authorities mentioned that government is supposed to provide or at least mend the generator that is meant for both hostel and the village.
The village has light polls and wires pulled every corner of the village giving the villager a false hope of electricity. When I talked to some villagers they told me, that the authorities were supposed to repair the generator for the village, and give light in December.
I really don’t know which December; hope at least December 2009 this dream of villagers will come true.
I wish the concerned authorities take action at the earliest and make villagers and my dream come true. I indeed do not know who is supposed to take care of it. I am ignorant just like villagers at Aishalton. I am speaking for the indigenous people who are supposed to be the natives of Guyana. I felt this is apt time since it is the Amerindian Heritage month.
How many villages are like Aishalton, who have a generator, but it is out of order?
I hope this analysis in Aishalton may bring a slim hope for the villagers These Amerindians are very gentle people, and they wait and wait for ages keeping the hope in their hearts and minds. Please I beg the government authorities to go down to Aishalton and install that Generator, and illumine the village and minds and hearts of the Wapishana Amerindians.
I am not going to be there since I have finished my contract in the school, but this is my appeal for the betterment of the people.
Jerry Dias

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