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Education is not the job of the State only

Jan 18, 2014 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Some of the difficulties faced by Kamarang school teachers, highlighted in your news article of 30th December 2013 (“Kamarang schools need some attention”) are being actively addressed by one private sector organization – Gafsons Industries Limited through its Support for Vulnerable Persons (SVP) Fund
The Fund’s support through the Guyana Book Foundation, an NGO, is committed to providing teachers and children of both the Kamarang nursery and primary schools with the needed teaching and learning supplies which will be sent to them at the earliest shipping opportunity.
The Guyana Book Foundation recognizes the difficulties (shortage of books, teaching supplies, trained teachers, adequate infrastructure) faced by schools in the hinterland and deep riverain regions where the geography of our country makes it difficult to travel and communicate with relatively isolated communities of the interior. This recognition has ensured that over the past 10-15 years, we have distributed free books and teaching resources to nursery, primary and secondary schools in the interior regions # 1, 7, 8 and 9. More recently, in partnership with Scotia Bank, Republic Bank and AINLIM, schools in the riverain areas of regions #2 and #3 as well as nursery schools in Region 8, benefitted from books and supplies.
Education is not the job of the State only; partners have to be found with the family, the private sector, NGOs, religious organizations and the Guyanese Diaspora. The Guyana Book Foundation is particularly heartened by the response of these private sector organizations to the plight of some of our most vulnerable – the children in the interior regions.
L. Jagdeo
Guyana Book Foundation

 

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