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Mibicuri Community Developers honour Hilbert Foster for work with youths
Minister Volda Lawrence and Mr. Hilbert Foster in conversation
The outstanding work of long standing Secretary/CEO of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) Hilbert Foster was recognized by another organization.
The 2010 National Sports Personality of the year was honoured for his work among youths, especially his hard work in the fight against suicide in Black Bush Polder and Guyana, by the Mibicuri Community Developers.
Minister within the Ministry of Health, Dr. Karen Cummings presented Foster with the award on behalf of the group and congratulated him for his outstanding work. In an invited comment, Foster who has received numerous awards from international and national organizations, stated that he was humbled to be honoured by a sister organization of the RHTY&SC.
The Mibicuri Community Developers and the RHTY&SC were both founded by the three-time Commonwealth Youth Service Awardee, the St Francis Community Developers.
Foster has been the architect and driving force behind thousands of projects/activities directed towards youths over the past fifteen years in his capacity as Secretary/CEO of the club. Every year the club, under Foster’s leadership undertakes a challenging list of about two hundred (200) programmes/activities that touches and changes the lives of youths across Berbice.
Foster who also served as the Chairman of the Special Events Committee of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) from 2008 to 2014 completed over one thousand (1000) projects/activities that completely transformed the BCB from a mere cricketing entity to a highly successful non-governmental organization.
In 2005, he drafted a massive Anti Drug and Pro Education campaign for the RHTY&SC that included magazines, leaflets, posters, educational scholarships, counseling, television commercials and programmes, billboards, involvement in sports and assistance to students to stay in school.
In 2014, the programme was expanded to target youths in a “Say NO to Crime and Suicide” Promotion. Thousands of youth information booklets, posters and banners for schools were published in conjunction with the Edward B. Beharry Co. Ltd, the Guyana Police Force ‘B’ Division and the Region 6 Ministry of Education.
The Anti Suicide Promotion has also included numerous sports competitions, donation of equipment to clubs, lectures from Role Models and an Anti Suicide Rally that featured over one thousand (1000) students from schools across Region 6.
The eight cricket teams of the club under the guidance of Foster have also targeted the prevention of suicide under their personal development programmes. Foster dedicated the World Suicide Prevention Day Award to the sponsors and every member of the RHTY&SC.
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