Latest update December 4th, 2024 2:40 AM
Rotarians reward East Ruimveldt IT students
The East Ruimveldt Community Centre held a truly grateful group of residents, yesterday afternoon as they celebrated the completion of a 10-week course in Computer Training.
Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Georgetown Central, the programme is only part of the Club’s Centennial Project which revolves around the East Ruimveldt Community Centre and follows the theme “Empowerment of the East Ruimveldt Community”
One of the participants receives her certificate from the President-Elect of the Rotary Club of Georgetown Central, Mrs. Gail Robinson (right).
Gathered yesterday were a number of the students who had taken part in the programme over it span, as well as several Rotarians. Among these was President-Elect of the club Mrs. Gail Robinson, who later presented the participants with their certificates as well as Assistant Governor, Keith Williams.
In his address to the participants, Williams told them of the long association that the club has had with the East Ruimveldt community, highlighting the numerous projects that they have been running off, these include the Computer Training, Literacy and Numeracy-based programmes as well as life skills.
Williams said that he remembered one of the first literacy programmes when there was a young woman who would bring her baby to every single class, determined that she would not miss this second chance. He also spoke of the joy and pride in the faces of a particular group after they were taught to fill out their very first bank slips.
The group gathered yesterday was no less remarkable, single mothers, there were even two men in the group as all hard working and every one of them grateful to have been given the opportunity to participate in the programmes.
Several of them stood up to express their gratitude to the Rotary Club for instituting the programme while others thanked their teacher Ms. Lynette Fraser for her patience and kindness in showing them the world of computers.
One participant pointed out that it’s very tough to find a job these days if one does not have some kind of computer experience.
The Rotarians also told the participants that they have been given the opportunity to help themselves and that it was now their duty to pass that opportunity on to other members of the community. And it seems that the recipients of the community were already ahead of the Rotary call, having answered the call.
Twenty-year-old Melissa Bess has taken over the ‘Read to Me’ programme which focuses on teaching young children how to read. One of the two males, Michael Eiffel, has already pledged his support to the reading group as a way of paying forward the blessings.
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