Gajnabi, Grimmond donate to RHTY&SC/RHT Thunderbolt Flour team

ꟷ pensioners among beneficiaries

The Rose Hall Town Metro Female Cricket team, Guyana’s only female cricket team, was established in 2008 with the main objective of nurturing the talent of female players in Berbice and Guyana.

That club produced Shemaine Campbelle and Erva Giddings for the West Indies, and in September 2019, Sheneta Grimmond and Shabika Gajnabi made their club proud by becoming the 3rd and 4th members of that team to play international cricket.
Metro Office and Computer Supplies has been the official sponsor of this team since its formation, and over the years has pumped into it more than $1.5 million to develop female cricketing talents.
Grimmond and Gajnabi both joined the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) more than eight years ago, and have developed their skills under the watchful eyes of Campbelle, Giddings, and the club’s cricket management group headed by veteran administrator Robby Kissoonlall.
They both have represented Berbice and Guyana at the Under-19 and Senior levels. Gajnabi, moreover, has successful led Guyana to the Under-19 Championship in Trinidad.
These West Indies players have expressed their gratitude to the RHTY&SC on Thursday last by donating a laptop computer. Costing $110,000, this computer was handed over to RHTY&SC Assistant Secretary/CEO Simon Naidu by Gajnabi at the Club’s Office at the Area H Ground.
The promising all-rounder has said that she and Grimmond would forever be grateful for the vision of the RHTY&SC in establishing a female team, which allows females to fulfill their personal dreams.
She noted that she is now a West Indies player because of the visionary planning and respective financial investment of both the RHTY&SC and Metro.
Naidu, who received the donation on behalf of RHTY&SC Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster, expressed gratitude to the players, and said the laptop computer would assist him in discharging his duties to keep record of club assets, player performances, updating the RHTY&SC Facebook Account, and issuing media releases.
Club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster said it is always pleasing to management when players remember where they came from. He told both players that the club was very proud of them, and wished them success in the future.
Meanwhile, members of the Club’s Namilco Thunderbolt Flour First Division team treated in excess of 200 old age pensioners to breakfast as they awaited to uplift their October pension.
Led by Organizing Secretary Robby Kissoonlall and Naidu, the players treated the pensioners to a cup of hot tea, cold drinks, sandwiches, a variety of fruits, biscuits and Namilco’s wheat-up porridge.
The programme is the first of several personal development projects that the team would host under the Thunderbolt Flour brand. Other programmes would include a medical outreach, hampers for senior citizens, youth inspiration forums, anti-drugs posters, feeding of the less fortunate, and school bags for less fortunate students.