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BCB launches 2011 Charity Programme

Jan 16, 2011 Sports

$100,000 worth of clothing given to Alpha Children’s Home

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) on Thursday last kicked off its 2011 Charity Programme with a donation of $130,000 worth of clothing and sports gear to the Alpha Children Home which is based on the East Bank of Berbice.
The presentation also launched the Board’s calendar of activities for the year during which a target of at least fifteen cricket tournaments and seventy five off the field programmes/projects is their challenge.
Chairman of the BCB’s Special Events Committee Hilbert Foster in making the presentation said they have transformed themselves into a progressive NGO with the main aim of touching the lives of the less fortunate while at the same time fulfilling the cricketing mandate.
The Board he explained would be involved in a total of twenty programmes directed towards children and the elderly at the cost of $1.5M during 2011.
Among the other projects to be undertaken are donations to the Senior Citizen Homes, new born babies kits to the New Amsterdam Hospital, hampers for senior citizens, the Berbice Senior Players Charity Programme and donations to NGOs in Berbice.
All Berbice Inter County cricket teams will also be mandated to undertake one charity project as part of their personal development programme. Representative of the Alpha Children Home, Associate Pastor Esther Bruyning expressed gratitude to the BCB for the donation stating that the Board is a role model organisation which others should work hard to emulate. Pastor Bruyning noted that the Board had assisted the home in the past and assured the members that the donation would be used for its intended purpose.
Gratitude was extended by the BCB to the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for their continued support of its Charity Programmes.

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