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Dec 10, 2012 Sports
Two charitable organizations, St Ann’s Girls’ Orphanage of Thomas Street Georgetown and the St John’s Bosco of Plaisance ECD,
yesterday afternoon collected more than $60,000 cash, toiletries and other items accrued from the proceeds of a fund raising event and scrabble tournament staged under the auspices of the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP), at the Malteenoes Sports Club, Thomas Lands, yesterday afternoon.
Dubbed ‘Scrabblers Give Back’ the event consisted of a tournament, where the proceeds from the registration fees were matched by the GASP executives and augmented by further contributions of the GASP membership.
The GASP executive was also the recipient of a substantial donation after one of the Directors of the Kashif and Shanghai organization, Kashif Muhammad, who journeyed to the venue shortly after the tournament, had concluded and donated a cheque of an undisclosed amount.
Consequently, Matron of the St Ann’s Girls Orphanage, Sheila Profitt, journeyed to the Malteenoes Sports Club and collected the gift on behalf of her organization, while Sister Denise Lyttle of the Sisters of Mercy Institution, collected on behalf of the St John’s Bosco.
The event was organized by the recently elected executive members of GASP, under the patronage of President, Leon Belony and received support from the entire membership.
The cash and other items donated to the above mentioned charitable organizations were accrued from the sum total of the $1,000 per player, garnered from registration fees of a tournament simultaneously played with the occasion. This sum was matched by the GASP executive committee and further enhanced by personal donations from individual members.
Meanwhile, Ms Profitt and Ms Lyttle both expressed gratitude to the GASP officials and assured them that the gift would go a far way towards their charges’ comfort.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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