Latest update February 26th, 2025 6:31 AM
BCB Invites applications for first ever Vitality Inc Upper Corentyne Educational Scholarship
Mr Sureain Sawh and Directors of Vitality Inc.
Kaieteur News – The Berbice Cricket Board at the start of 2021 had committed to providing educational scholarships for cricketers in the four major sub areas in the county. BCB President Hilbert Foster had stated that his board would obtain sponsorship for scholarships for youths in West Berbice, New Amsterdam/Canje, Lower Corentyne and Upper Corentyne.
The BCB has already handed out a one year educational scholarship to Naeem Khan from the Lower Corentyne area at the cost of two hundred thousand dollars, while eight students from the New Amsterdam/Canje sub zone benefitted from educational grants. These programmes were sponsored by Minister of Agriculture Zulifar Mustapha and West Indies player Shimron Hetmeyer respectively.
The board has now obtained the support of Mr Sureain Sawh of Vitality Inc, an overseas based Guyanese company which recently opened a branch in the Ramnaresh Sarwan Mall, located at Providence, East Bank Demerara.
The company would be donating two hundred thousand dollars towards a one year grant to a cricketer attending the University of Guyana. The funds would be used towards the payment of the cricketer student fees at the University.
The BCB is therefore inviting players in the area to apply for the first ever BCB/Vitality Educational Scholarship. Interested persons must be living between the NO 43 to Moleson Creek catchment area and must be an active member of one of the twenty six clubs in the Upper Corentyne area. Applications must be submitted by the 15th of April to the BCB office in Charlotte Street, New Amsterdam. The application must include proof that the applicant is a student at the university, their CSEC results, two recommendations along with a letter from a cricket club in the area confirming membership. In the event that a suitable candidate is not found, the funds would be distributed to eight cricketers attending secondary schools.
Foster, who was elected President of the BCB in 2018, has made it quite clear that he strongly believes that all cricketers in the county must make education a top priority in life as not everyone of them would succeed on the cricket field. He has also constantly stated that an educated mind thinks faster in moments of crisis. Over the last three years, hundreds of cricketers have received educational materials, school bags, bicycles and financial assistance towards their educational careers. The BCB is expected to announce shortly, plans to assist cricketers in the West Berbice area with educational grants.
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