RHTY&SC Cricket Teams assist West Berbice counterparts

The ten cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTYSC), MS, on Sunday last continued their personal development programme by donating to two of their counterparts in Region 5.

The RHTY&SC teams: Poonai’s Pharmacy Under-12 and Under-13; Farfan & Mendes Under-15; Bakewell Under-17 and Second Division; Pepsi Under-19 and Intermediate; Metro Female; Gizmos & Gadgets Under-21 and First Division, handed over the donation of educational materials, kites and white cricket shirts to the D’Edward Cricket Club and the Cotton Tree Die Hard Cricket Club.
The presentation was made after the finals of the Berbice Cricket Board’s West Berbice Perry Gossai Memorial 100 Balls Tournament. RHTY&SC Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster, who is President of the Berbice Cricket Board, declared that in 2019 more than 200 cricket clubs, NGOs, churches, schools, sporting organisations, along with thousands of residents, will benefit from the hard work of the ten teams.
BCB Asst Secretary/CEO Simon Naidu has direct responsibility for the personal development programme, under which the Club’s cricketers seek to make positive differences in the lives of youths and the elderly and less fortunate.
Foster told the two teams that the kites were to be shared to children whose parents could not afford to purchase one for them, while the complete educational packages should be given to less fortunate students from single parent households. The cricket tee shirts’ donation is to assist the two clubs to be properly attired.
Foster also disclosed that the Club will, in 2019, be working along with the Berbice Cricket Board to assist clubs across Berbice.
Under the joint programme, clubs will receive, during the course of the year, items like cricket balls, cricket gears, score books, white cricket shirts, trophies, cricket medals and water pitchers. All clubs will receive balls and shirts, while the other items will be given to those who need assistance to embrace sports as an alternative to a life on the road; away from drugs, crime, alcohol and gangs.
Naidu, who at just 19 years old has taken over the day-to-day running of Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation, has said the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club is the only cricket club in the Caribbean that mandates its cricketers to each make a positive difference.
Among the most cherished activities of the programme are: providing monthly snacks to pensioners as they wait to uplift their old age pensions; monthly food hampers to senior citizens and single parent households; educational scholarship to students; medical expenses’ assistance to senior citizens; and assisting youths to fulfill their dreams of becoming sports ambassadors.
Naidu has said he wishes other entities would match the BCB’s achievements, since it would mean more youths being able to “Say No to all the social illnesses affecting them”.