Stanley Ming makes $1M donation to School of the Nations Project

Jan 10, 2012 News

Mr Stanley Ming recently donated $1 million to School of the Nations to support the

In picture Mr. Brian O’Toole, Principal of School of the Nations, receives the cheque from Mrs Audrey Ford, Director of Mings Products and Services, in the presence of Mr. Stanley Ming (CEO, MPS), Mrs. Pam O’Toole, and some of the students who are benefitting from the programme.

provision of Community Intervention Projects organised by the school and Varqa Foundation.
These projects include a variety of activities for the residents of the Tiger Bay community. These activities include literacy, steel pan, parent education and computer classes along with sports programmes among others.
Mr Brian O’Toole, head of the School of the nations said that for the past two years, more than 100 people from Tiger Bay have been coming to the school in the afternoons for a variety of activities. The activities also took into consideration parenting skills.
More than 50 Sixth Form students voluntarily undertook the collaboration with the Tiger Bay residents with support from Varqa Foundation.
Recently the One Laptop Per Family Programme donated computers to the project even as the wider community is becoming involved in the project.