Latest update April 7th, 2025 6:08 AM
Seventy students equipped with school bags from RHTY&SC cricket teams
Seventy (70) less fortunate students attending schools in the Lower Corentyne and Central Corentyne areas on Friday last received school bags from the cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club under the Pro-Education Campaign.
The students were drawn from the Central Corentyne Secondary, J.C Chandisingh Secondary, Lower Corentyne Secondary, Port Mourant Secondary, Corentyne Comprehensive High and Winifred Gaskin Secondary Schools.
The presentation was done during the finals of the club’s GBTI Inter Secondary Schools cricket tournaments for females and Under-15 students.
Twenty of the students pose with their bags after the presentation.
The recipients were selected based on performance in school, personal discipline, attitude and involvement in sports. Club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster informed that the school bags, worth $100,000 were given with a view to encourage the students, who are mainly from single parent households, to stay in school and to obtain a rounded education.
He cautioned the attentive students that education is the most important asset a person can attain and that it would open doors that would remain closed to an uneducated mind. He also urged them to get involved in a youth and sports club in their district and to develop a strong faith in the God they believe in.
The club’s Office Manager Moonish Singh, who is also the cricket Manager, disclosed that over the last ten years a total of 5500 students have received school bags under the entity’s Pro-Education Programme which is administered by the RHT Farfan and Mendes Under-15, RHT Bakewell Under-17 and Second Division, Pepsi Under-19 and Intermediate, Metro Female and the Gizmos and Gadgets Under 21 and First Division teams.
This year, the teams intend to assist close to 1000 students in Berbice with bags.
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