RHTY&SC launches 2020 Calendar of Activities with Senior Citizens Breakfast Programme

After setting itself a 2020 target of 700 activities, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC), MS, and its ten cricket teams, launched its calendar of activities by hosting the monthly pensioners’ breakfast programme, led by Secretary/ CEO Hilbert Foster, MS.

The teams provided a solid breakfast to dozens of senior citizens as they waited to uplift their monthly pension at the Rose Hall Town Post Office. The breakfast consisted of a solid main course, biscuits, fruits, cold local fruit drinks and hot tea.
Foster said 2020 is anticipated to be a very special year for Guyana’s most vibrant youth and sports organization, as it would be celebrating its 30th anniversary. The club was founded in 1990 by Guyana and Commonwealth Youth Service Awardee the St. Francis Community Developers.

The breakfast programme is the first of at least 700 activities that the club has set itself for 2020. September has been dedicated as the anniversary month, and will see the hosting of at least twenty-five major activities to celebrate the milestone. These include a prayer service, public exhibition, medical outreach, restoration of club office, anniversary magazine, feeding of the poor, 20/20 cricket tournament, and assistance for youth cricketers.
This year will see the RHTY&SC concentrating on the development of its ten cricket teams, Say No/Say Yes Campaign, Streamlining of its Charity Programme and the personal development of each of its members.
Foster, who is also President of the Berbice Cricket Board, stated that in 2020 the RHTY&SC would assist only clubs that invest in youths and have a solid track record.
The RHTY&SC would also host dozens of activities under its Say No/ Say Yes campaign, which targets thousands of youths across Berbice to Say No to Drugs, Suicide, Crime, Tobacco, Alcohol and Yes to Education, Sports, Culture life and Religion.
Among the events and projects shall be a youth inspiration forum, youth booklet, educational competitions, sports tournaments, summer camp, rallies, career fair, anti-drugs/suicide posters, television commercials, television programmes and counselling sessions.
The RHTY&SC will also host several sporting events in 2020, including an Inter Secondary School Cricket Tournament, Busta Champion of Champions, Naeem Nasir Memorial 100 balls, and also provide sponsorship for other sporting disciplines like table tennis, volleyball, basketball and softball.
The ten cricket teams will also undertake a combined one hundred activities under their self-development programme. The ten cricket teams of the RHTY&SC are sponsored by Poonai Pharmacy, Farfan and Mendes Ltd, Bakewell, Metro Office Supplies, Pepsi, and Namilco.