Digicel hands over Kingston Practical Instruction Centre to the Education Ministry
Cellular service provider, Digicel Guyana on Tuesday morning made a significant financial donation towards the refurbishing of the Kingston Practical Instructional Centre (KPIC).
The Kingston Practical Instructional Centre which has over time been refurbished by Digicel
The instructional centre has over the years been preparing children from various schools for CXC and their tertiary education.
Digicel, as it continues on its quest to improve the lives of youths and to aid in their development, made yet another financial donation towards refurbishing the institution.
Every year at Digicel, staff members are encouraged to participate in a competition called the ‘waves’ where they submit projects they would like to see realised.
As such, two persons collaborated and submitted the Kingston refurbishing project, which won the competition.
According to Digicel’s Marketing Manager, Jacqueline James, Digicel then began work to have the Centre refurbished.
“The project in itself was to restore the classrooms on the ground floor as well as to do any minor fixing up that may be required on the upper floors. Fortunately and unfortunately for them, based on the funds that they won, it was not enough to complete the project so at Digicel, we decided that we would put some more money towards it and we put a little more and yet a little more”.
This donation however, is not the first for Digicel to the centre. The company has made many other contributions which to date, have aided in the development of the institution.
“If anyone remembers what it looked like before, but now we have a concrete based foundation, we have new classrooms for wood working mechanic, metal works, technical drawing and welding. Each of these classrooms is now separated so there isn’t one leading into the other” James explained.
This present donation was made as there is still much to be done at the centre.
The Marketing Manager said “of course as you can see, there is still a little more work left to be done but we wanted to ensure that we took care of the more essential aspects of things which is the classroom for the students so that they can continue their education”.
Digicel will overtime continue to improve the facility to restore it to better days.
“So over a period of time, we will continue to improve this facility, we will do more work as time goes on, so that we can bring it to its full capacity and its full beauty” James disclosed.
The structure which houses the centre is over 100 years old.
Digicel also expressed gratitude to the Education Ministry for their assistance.
