Redeemer, Sophia Primary receive monetary donation from Tropical Shipping.

Aug 23, 2019 News

Tropical Shipping is a logistics and shipping company that has over 50 years’ experience in the business arena. They have weekly seven-day transits sailing from Florida to Guyana and provide Guyana with complete shipping services to and from Canada and across the Caribbean.

The Head teachers receiving their vouchers from Tropical Shipping Country Director Glenis Hodge.

During a simple ceremony yesterday, at the office located at 22 Barrack and High Streets, Kingston, Country Manager of Tropical Shipping, Glenis Hodge, made a donation of vouchers worth $270,000 each and redeemable at the Giftland Office Max to head teachers of two primary schools.
Denise McAllister received the vouchers on behalf of Redeemer Primary located in Stone Avenue, Campbellville. Audrey Sue received the donation on behalf of Sophia Primary located at ‘A’ Field Sophia.
Hodge said that as an institution it was part of the entity’s mandate to be involved with the community. It placed a big focus and Youth Development and Education and Sports.
She then noted, “As a part of our country’s corporate social responsibility, in the islands and countries we serve, on a yearly basis one of the areas we consider for funding is Youth Educational Programmes.”
She went on to explain that they were happy to use the opportunity to make the donation to the two schools to assist in the delivery of their curriculum, as they will have the necessary stationary for a comfortable convenient learning experience.
It is the company’s belief that the youths are the future. The management knows that what they are doing will bear fruits in the years to come.
Ms Audrey Sue said, “I want to say thanks to Tropical Shipping for such a timely donation. We know that they are very interested in the lives of the children in Guyana and because of that they are helping children like those at Sophia Primary. We are so grateful for the contribution.”
Ms Denise McAllister echoed her colleague’s sentiments. “I am very grateful to Tropical Shipping for this donation and I must say this will go a far way in fixing our classrooms.”
Both teachers shared concerns about the students and the status of their supplies.
While the Ministry of Education provides a majority of the things they needed, there were still some setbacks and shortages in regards to teaching aid materials, she said.
Because of the poor socio economic status and the stigma attached to the areas they were located there wasn’t much that the parent-teacher Association (PTA) could do.
The funds will be used to coverage these areas and boost the classrooms as well as buy textbooks that have more work-oriented pages for the students because of the fact that some of them were slow learners.

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