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RHTYSC assists youths with sports and educational materials in memory of the late West Indian Maestro
Basil Butcher Memorial Trust Fund
Kaieteur Sports – The late Basil F. Butcher was not only a batting maestro for the West Indies but he was also a close friend of Guyana’s leading youth and sports club, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club MS. Butcher for close to thirty years was an advisor to the management of the club and also supported the RHTYSC cricket development programme with sponsoring of the Butcher Trust Fund, which assisted dozens of youths with cricket gears. They include Shawn Perriera, Shimron Hetmyer, Assad Fudadin and Shemaine Campbelle.
Five of the youths with their bicycles from the Butcher Fund.
Butcher who played forty-four test matches for the West Indies in the 1950’s and 1960’s died in December 2019 in the United States of America after a prolonged illness. The widow and four children of the late West Indian player worked along with the management of the club to establish the fund in memory of Butcher. Over the years, the Basil Butcher Trust fund has assisted cricket clubs, schools, public institutions and youths with donation of cricket balls, bicycles, school bags, educational materials, sports gears, food hampers, electronic tablets, uniforms and electric fans. Several awards ceremonies were also organized to honor students, medical workers, law enforcement officers and teachers under the trust fund.
Young cricketers pose with their batting gloves from the Fund.
The cricket teams of the RHTYSC- Poonai Pharmacy Under 13, Farfan and Mendis Under 15, Bakewell Under 17 and Second Division, Pepsi Under 19, Metro Females, NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Under 21 and first division are currently hosting the fourth edition of the Trust Fund. Ten youths on Thursday last were presented a pair of batting gloves with the assistance of Sheik Mohamed, former national wicketkeeper. The Trust Fund has also donated ten cycles to youths over the last two weeks. The bicycles were to assist the youths to attend school and cricket practice.
Leon Balkaran receives his cricket bat from RHTYSC.
Under13 cricketer Leon Balkaran received a cricket bat from the trust fund worth $50,000 while six schools also received top student honor boards. The objective of the board is to honor the top CSEC and Grade Six students every year. The cricket teams have also spearheaded the distribution of school bags and educational materials worth one million dollars. The Basil Butcher Trust Fund also donated gym equipment, office equipment and stationery to the Port Mourant Public Hospital. The teams also honored outstanding medical workers, police officers, teachers, students, cricketers, postal workers and municipality workers under the Basil Butcher Trust Fund Award Programme. The fund has also assisted a total of eleven cricket clubs including Whim, Kildonan and Wiruni while the Republic Bank Grade 6 Summer Camp and Bakewell/Busta Cricket Academy have been successfully hosted with a combined 200 youths in attendance.
RHTYSC organizing secretary and cricket manager Robby Kissoonlall stated that the cricketers would shortly be hosting its first-ever Tribute to Fire Prevention Workers Programme, where five officers would be honored for outstanding job performance in the township of Rose Hall. Kissoonlall also hailed the hard work of club members to keep the legacy of Basil Butcher alive. Butcher scored over three thousand runs with seven test centuries and sixteen half-centuries at an average of 43.11.
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