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Berbice Orphanages receive TV sets from BCB Senior Players Charity Trust
The Berbice Cricket Board under its 2011 Senior Players Charity Trust Programme on Thursday last presented 21 inch TV sets to three (3) Berbice Children Orphanages namely Alpha Children’s Home, Camal Children’s Home and Canaan Children’s Home.
Chairman of the Berbice Cricket Board Special Events Committee and Public Relations Officer, Hilbert Foster who spearheaded the programme stated that the Members and Management of the Berbice Universal DVD team that recently won the Hits & Jams Twenty20 tournament donated $100,000 to the project while the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) contributed $50,000.
The Players’ contribution was made under their personal development programme through which they are mandated by the Board to make positive differences in the lives of others.
Representatives of the 3 children orphanages with their television sets
According to Foster, the TVs would be used as a recreational tool for 150 orphans and also allow them access to the Guyana Learning Television Centre.
The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club Secretary/CEO informed the large gathering that the BCB has successfully transformed itself from not only being a mere cricketing authority but a progressive Non Governmental Agency which over the last four years contributed millions of dollars worth of items to the less fortunate.
The Berbice Cricket Board has also made commitment to provide coaches to coach the youths at the orphanages in playing the game.
BCB Secretary Angela Haniff disclosed that last year, the Board under the same programme donated items worth $200,000 to NGOs in Berbice. Chairman of the Competitions Committee, Carl Moore, who is also the longest serving BCB Executive, described the presentation of the Television sets as the continuation of the Board’s progressive contribution to the development of the Ancient County.
Board President Keith Foster, in an emotional address stated that while others ‘Talk the Talk’, the Board under his administration was transforming itself into an organisation that would be unmatched in the future by ‘Walking the Talk’.
He noted that the BCB’s achievements on and off the field along with its activities in charity, social, religious and community development was unmatched. Foster said that the foundation was laid for the Ancient County to dominate Guyana’s cricket for many years to come and issued a challenge for all the other Cricket Boards in Guyana to take pages out of the book of the BCB and to always put cricket first.
Caretaker of the Canaan Children Home, Sydney Kennard expressed gratitude to the BCB and its cricketers for taking the time out to care for the less fortunate children and recalled that only two weeks ago the children were provided with hot meals by the members of the BCB Cricket Academy. Sister Esther Bruyning of the Alpha children Home described the Berbice Cricket Board as role model organisation which others should emulate and expressed gratitude for the donation of the TVs.
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