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US Embassy donates $2M in material to Corentyne schools
The U.S. Embassy’s Humanitarian Assistance Programme (HAP) has donated over $2M worth of education materials, teaching aides and agriculture equipment to several Corentyne schools.
The handing over was held in the auditorium of the Black Bush Secondary School at Black Bush Polder.
The schools that benefitted from the donation included Black Bush Secondary, Mibicuri Primary and Gibraltar-Courtland Primary.
Region Six Education Officer, Mrs Shafiran Bhajan, stated that the project was a spin – off from Operation Continuing Promise 2010 which concluded last year in Region Six. Head teachers of the beneficiary schools as well as presidents of the Parent- Teacher/Friends Association (PTFA) were present. They expressed thanks and appreciation to the United States officials for the timely donation.
Televisions, stereo sets, tape recorders, maps, story books and dictionaries, wall charts, spades, hoes, forks, grass cutters, educational board games, and cutlasses were a few of the items that were given to the schools.
Mrs Bhajan outlined the immediate benefits that can be had from the children using the equipment and materials that were handed over yesterday.
“These are going to enrich the learning environment; make it more child friendly and make learning more interactive so that with more input, we are looking for more output as well so that we can have an optimal match because our final objective is to have effective learning both at the primary and secondary levels of education.
“We want all our young people leave the school system brimming with self- confidence and equipped with the necessary knowledge, skills attitudes and values”, she said.
She thanked Director of the Embassy’s HAP programme, Jordan Burfield, for his great work and patience in getting the specifications right for the different schools that were assisted over the past couple of months.
Bhajan added that schools such as Cropper Primary, Gibraltar Primary and Belvedere Primary, Clifton Primary, Corriverton Primary, all of which benefitted from donation of backpacks for the children from the same programme.
Burfield leaves Guyana in a few days and Bhajan challenged the other members of HAP who would remain in Guyana to continue assisting school children with school materials.
She urged headteachers who received the equipment to use them and allow the children to have access to them and not to lock them away in cupboards. (Leon Suseran)
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