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Windies debutants Gajnabi and Grimmond makes donation to RHT Thunderbolt Flour Team; Pensioners treated
The Rose Hall Town Metro Female Cricket team, Guyana’s lone female team was established in 2008 with the main objective of nurturing the talent of female players in Berbice and Guyana.
Shabika Gajnabi hands over computer to Simon Naidu.
The club has produced Shemaine Campbelle and Erva Giddings for the West Indies and in September 2019, Sheneta Grimmond along with Shabika Gajnabi made their club proud by becoming the 3rd and 4th members of the team to play international cricket.
Metro Office and Computer Supplies has been the official sponsor of the team since its formation and has pumped over $1.5M over the years to develop female cricket talents. Grimmond and Gajnabi both joined the RHTY&SC MS over eight years ago and have developed their skills under the watchful eyes of Campbelle, Giddings and the club’s cricket management group headed by veteran administrator, Robby Kissoonlall.
They both have represented Berbice and Guyana at the Under-19 and senior levels. Gajnabi also successfully led Guyana to Under-19 Championship glory in Trinidad. The West Indies players expressed their gratitude to the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club on Thursday last by donating a laptop computer.
The $110.000 computer was handed over to the Clubs Assistant Secretary/CEO Simon Naidu by Gajnabi at their Area ‘H’ Ground Office. The promising all-rounder stated that she and Grimmond would forever be grateful for the vision of the club in establishing a female team, which allows females to fulfill their personal dreams.
She noted that she is now a West Indies player because of the RHTY&SC and Metro’s visionary planning and financial investment, respectively. Naidu, who received the donation on behalf of the club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster expressed gratitude to the players.
He stated that the computer would assist him in his duties to keep records of club assets, players performance, updating their Facebook page and the issuing of media releases. Foster also said that it is always pleasing to Management when players remember where they came from.
He told both players that the club was very proud of them and wished them success in the future. Meanwhile members of the Club’s NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour First Division team treated over two hundred old age pensioners to breakfast as they waited to uplift their October pension.
The players led by Organising Secretary Robby Kissoonlall and Assistant Secretary/CEO Simon Naidu treated the pensioners with a cup of hot tea, cold drinks, sandwiches, a variety of fruits, biscuits and a cup of NAMILCO Wheat up porridge.
The programme is the first of several Personal Development Projects that the team would host under the Thunderbolt Flour brand. Other programmes would include a medical outreach, hampers for senior citizens, youth inspiration forum, anti drugs posters, feeding of the poor and school bags for less fortunate students.
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