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Jun 09, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
This is a follow up to my letter of April 06/14 about a dog named Brown Girl who found a school, Smith Memorial Primary, to call home. In passing the school one day I saw how kind some kids were treating Brown Girl so I decided to ask the Head Mistress, Donna John, permission to give a talk to the students at one of their Assembles.
The Head Mistress readily agreed and two weeks ago I gave a talk. While the weather conditions were not the best, the students were eager to listen and look at pictures of animals.
My talk was mostly about why they should not litter, the meaning and importance of spaying dogs, speaking out against cruelty, rules in caring for a pet (leave water, feed every day, don’t tie in hot sun, etc.)why they should adopt rather than buy pets, and why they should never buy or harm wildlife.
On the 5th of June I took some food for Brown Girl; it was around 7:30am when I entered the compound and saw a kid run away and disappear around the school building.
When he returned he was carrying Brown Girl’s water bowl – it was clean and full of water. I gave him a high five and told him how proud of him I was. One of his fellow students was eating some food from a plastic bag, I asked the boy what he was going to do with the plastic bag when he finished eating, he said “put it in the bin!”.I gave him a smile and another high five.
Editor, kids are thirsty for knowledge and want to do what is right and be helpful. I’m always amazed at their ability to learn. I know my short and simple talk made an impact on many of them because of the questions they were asking after the talk.
When it comes to littering and mistreatment of animals I think too many adults have forgotten what they learned as children. Maybe we should all read the interesting book: All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten. It is not too late, every adult in Guyana has the potential to become a role model and it doesn’t take much, just a lot of thought and then a little time to sit and talk with children about what is the right thing to do.
My thanks go out to Head Mistress John and Teachers for allowing me to share some time with their children. I hope to go back to the school to have a more in-depth conversation with the older students.
Syeada Manbodh
Please share this to every Guyanese including your house cats.
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