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Overseas-based Guyanese sets about restoring Vryheid’s Lust
…London-based Jean Marsh sparks programme
One overseas based Guyanese at Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara has
Youths in the community removing garbage
taken up the mantle to ensure that the community is brought back to what it was some 20 years ago.
Mrs. Jean March, who lives in London, organized to get more than four truckloads of builder’s waste over the weekend, to help repair several roads within the community and a garbage truck to remove the garbage buildup.
According to Mrs. March, upon her return to her homeland several years ago she saw the need for better access into the village. The woman said that a number of buses had stopped coming into the community because of the deplorable roads.
March said that a fair amount of funds was raised and on Saturday morning the trucks came. She told Kaieteur News that she somehow became emotional after seeking help from some youths in the community. “When the material came I asked and I didn’t get a favourable response…It was just me and another person” March said.
Still feeling determined, the woman went ahead, not knowing how the work would have been completed. She told Kaieteur News that just about ten minutes after she was there on the road, two more persons came, and before you knew it the whole community was there patching the roads.
According to residents, the main access road was repaired by the government almost three years ago, but the cross streets have not been repaired for well over ten years.
Mrs. March explained that on Sunday they managed to get a garbage truck to come into the village and with the help of the youths they removed several huge piles of garbage. “We had drinks and food…and they did the work; we have to encourage them so they will come out” Mrs. March told Kaieteur News.
The woman said that she has teamed up with another overseas-based Guyanese to finish another project they are planning.
Mr. Winston Dyer who lives in the USA, and Mrs March have undertaken to get the community field and community centre more developed.
One of several roads that was repaired
Dyer told Kaieteur News that he intends to return to Guyana so he has to ensure that his village is somewhere he would want to live in. He said that he was taken back by the condition of the roads in the community. They both believe that if the community field and community centre are done, the young people would not be idling around.
The woman said that her daughter who is a consultant in London has helped her set up a website where persons overseas can see the progress being made. Further, the website can serve as a means of generating more funds which will be used for further projects in the community.
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