Aurora Gold Mine Inc bats for RHTY&SC, MS, Cricket team’s Say No/Say Yes Programme

The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC), MS, last Tuesday received a major boost for its highly successful Say No/Say Yes Campaign when the Aurora Gold Mine Inc (AGM) presented the Club with a cheque for $500,000.
This donation, received at a simple presentation ceremony held at the St. Francis Community Developers Training Centre at the Area H Ground on the Corentyne, represents

the second year that the Aurora Gold Mine, offshoot of the Canada-based Guyana Goldfield Inc, is supporting the RHTY&SC, Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation.
Under this well-organised programme, the Club targets more than 70,000 Region 6 youths to say no to suicide, drugs, crime, alcohol, tobacco, and pre-marital sex; and yes to education, sports, culture, life, and religion.

The programme is directly managed by the RHTY&SC’s Assistant Secretary, 19-year-old Simon Naidu, with support from the Club’s ten cricket teams and the more than 35 sections. The campaign involves educational scholarships, donations of sporting and educational materials, magazines, youth information booklets, television programmes and commercial posters, educational competitions, sporting tournaments, career fairs, youth inspiration sessions, educational summer camps, cricket academies and rallies among other things.
Club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster, MS, has said the RHTY&SC is very grateful for the donation, as it would be used for three main projects, as agreed with the sponsors.
Ten youths attending primary and secondary schools would be provided with bicycles in an effort to get them to stay in school. The Club, in 2019, has already assisted dozens of less fortunate students with bicycles under its Patron’s Fund Programme.
Fifteen hundred Say No to Suicide Posters, featuring the images of RHTY&SC National Youth Players would be published for distribution to schools across the Region. The main objective is to educate youths that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
The third project would be the hosting of a Youth Inspiration Session for students and young sports persons. The session would be held at the St. Francis Centre and would involve hundreds of school children from across Berbice when school reopens in September, 2019. A panel of positive role models and inspirational leaders would be invited to speak to the youths.
Foster has said that the major problems facing youths in Berbice are lack of job opportunities, suicide, drug abuse, high involvement rate in crime, truancy at the secondary level, and a lack of positive role models to emulate.
In expressing gratitude to the company for its annual support, he made special mention of Senior Manager Peter Benny, CSR Coordinator Ms Miranda La Rose, and Delon Brathwaite. He assured them that the three programmes would be well organised and achieve all of their objectives.
Ms La Rose has said she is well aware of the RHTY&SC’s record of outstanding service to youths in Berbice, and the effect it has had on them. She committed the company to working along with the Club, and urged the Executives to uphold the high standard they have achieved in the past. She also expressed confidence that the three programmes would be successful.
RHTY&SC Vice President Mark Papannah gave a special gift to Ms La Rose on behalf of the Club, MS, along with a Certificate of Appreciation.