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RHTYSC, MS and Aurora Gold Mines assist ten students with bicycles for School
“Nothing is important to the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS than the promotion of education and sports to our youths. In my book,
The ten youths posed with their new bicycles, compliments of the RHTYSC and Gold Mines.
education is the number one goal that every human being should aim for. Education and Sports are two safe avenues that can transform a life from rags to riches, tears of joy and sleepless nights to unmatched happiness. As long as the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club exists, we would promote the importance of education and sports as our number one priority.” The words of longtime Secretary/CEO of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS Hilbert Foster at a simple presentation ceremony as the Club handed out ten bicycles to school children on Friday last at the St. Francis Training Centre in Rose Hall Town.
The donation was made possible with the financial support of one of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club official donors, Aurora Gold Mines. The Company, an arm of the Canadian based Guyana Gold Field Inc has earlier in July donated $500,000 to the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS. The donated sum would be used by Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation to donate the bicycles, print thousands of anti-suicide, educational posters and to host a youth inspirational forum for hundreds of students in September, 2019. Seven of the students receiving the bicycles were specially selected by the cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, Ms, while the remaining three were drawn from the Blairmont, Chesney and No. 19 Kendall’s Union Cricket Clubs.
Foster disclosed that the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club and its ten cricket teams in 2019 have already donated close to $1M worth of bicycles to students under its Say Yes to Education Campaign. The main objective is to assist less fortunate students to attend school at no cost to their parents and to also assist those who are involved in sports to attend practise in the afternoon. Foster cautioned the students and their parents that the cycles should not be used for the purchase of items like alcohol, tobacco. Special thanks were extended to Aurora Gold Mines and its staff especially Peter Benny, Miranda La Rose and Dilon Brathwaite for their support in making the donations of the bicycle possible.
With the rainy season affecting the restart of the 2019 cricket season in Berbice, the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club and its cricket teams are pushing ahead with the promotion of their highly successful Say No/Say Yes Campaign. Under the campaign, the teams urged youths to say no to drugs, crime, suicide, alcohol, tobacco and yes to education, culture, religion, sports and life. They have already shared out close to $5M worth of bicycles, school bags, cricket gears, trophies, medals, cricket balls, educational material, score books among others to youths, schools, NGOs, churches and sporting organisations in Berbice. The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club has also printed another edition of its Youth Information Booklet and is currently working with the Berbice Cricket Board to publish the first ever information booklet for youth cricketers in Guyana.
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