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I am willing to help financially with youth development

Jul 08, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Even as a British colony, youngsters finding jobs was always a problem. I recall, having passed my ‘Senior Cambridge’ exam, my father telling someone that a colleague mentioned an office job with Bookers, and being told by the chap that Bookers employed only fair-skinned girls, like his own daughter! In those 1940s days, that was normal policy.
Poor parents struggled to pay the monthly fees for their children to get a high school education, so that they could get “a good job”, having passed the Cambridge School Certificate exam. When I passed my ‘Senior’ in 1947, the Cambridge certificate which never reached me and all the other successful candidates for that year, because the school closed in the meantime, and the certificates were pushed through the door, without a signature being collected.
The Education Department suggested that I get a copy of the details instead, direct from the university. I did and had to depend on this for jobs. Not a bad thing in the long run, because roughly 40 years later, when my Brit boss saw the long list of subjects offered on the Cambridge University curriculum, he was flabbergasted. He had left school at age 16, for financial reasons.
Now, I am wondering whether enough women are involved in the field of advancing the chances of youngsters in general. If not, why not? I am willing to help financially, if a responsible, reliable, committed group of women could be organised to help in the process of “youth advancement”. But the initiative has to be local and reliable. Serves a better purpose than “inheritance tax”.
Geralda Dennison

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