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Apr 12, 2018 News
The Guyana Foundation Sunrise Centre on Tuesday honoured the trustees of the organization. Scotia Bank and the recipients of the service offered by the organization gave an insight into the works of the foundation and how it tremendously benefitted them.
Present at the conference were UK High Commissioner, Greg Quinn, members of the trustee committee, special advisors, and the Essequibo, Georgetown, Cayman Islands and Canada team members.
The Guyana Foundation is a non-profit trust registered under the laws of Guyana. Its mission is to release the power of people globally to assist Guyanese to transform their communities, bring fulfilment and well-being to their families thus enabling them to build relations of trust and friendship among themselves, irrespective of race and beliefs.
The Foundation operates village-based Sunrise Centres that comprise mostly local persons. It offers a range of confidential and professional mental health counselling. It also offers training courses free of cost to those who are underprivileged and cannot afford to pay for those courses.
Those courses include catering, tailoring, music, sports, graphic design among others.
In addition to offering courses, the Foundation hosts weekly television shows in Essequibo promoting wellness and healthy living topics.
During the years, the Sunrise Centre in Essequibo has been a huge success. Scotia Bank in 2017 funded the Sunrise Centre from which 126 adult students graduated from the training programmes offered. More than 300 children benefitted from after school classes or summer clubs.
The Sunrise Centre in its efforts to create a peaceful and cohesive nation, gathered volunteers who had successfully changed the lives of many young Guyanese.
The first venture was a water project that offered improvements to a school in the Moruca Village by supplying drinking water for the children. Improvements were also made to the toilet and dormitory facilities of the village.
The second was a solar lighting project in the Breezy Point Village on East Coast Demerara. The community received Solar Power light kits in every home, affording residents an improved standard of life, and enabling kids to study after dark.
FUTURE PROJECTS
According to Ms. Miriam Robert-Hinds, the Manager of the Sunrise Centre, the club has ongoing projects which the members intend to implement very soon once additional funding is successful.
They intend to establish additional Sunrise Centres in the Soesdyke-Linden Highway and set up more bakeries in remote locations as a women’s empowerment project.
During the presentation, a few of the girls who benefitted from the training programmes gave their heartrending stories about the trials and struggles they have been through.
Tears filled their eyes as they related their stories about where they came from and how the Sunrise Centre changed their lives.
Founder of the Foundation, Ms. Supriya Singh-Bodden, gave sincere thanks to all the persons who initially and continuously help the foundation to develop and stand by them through their challenges.
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