The ten cricket teams handed over four cycles and dozens of school bags to students while the oldest resident in Rose Hall Town also received an electric sewing machine.
Minister Dawn Hasting-Williams with students who received the bags
Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) President, Hilbert Foster, has explained that under the Patron’s Fund, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) will be sharing out five hundred school bags, twenty-five bicycles, and twenty cricket bats to youths in observance of the Patron’s Birthday.
The Club is also sponsoring a Green Economy Cricket Competition for the BCB, and has also made donations to the Buxton Cricket Club, the East Bank Football Association, Rose Hall Town Council, and other organisations under the Patron’s Fund.
Dozens of cricket clubs across Berbice have also benefited from donations of cricket equipment, while twenty promising cricketers are to receive a cricket bat each.
The Patron’s Fund would also honour the top Region 6 students of the National Grade Six Examinations. The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, Foster stated, is fully committed to assisting youths to fulfill their full potential on and off the cricket field, and in the classroom.
Minister of Public Affairs, Dawn Hastings-Williams, has hailed the outstanding work of the RHTYSC and has urged the Club to continue making a positive difference in the Ancient County. She said she was pleased that the Club was assisting to fulfill President Granger’s Five Bs Programme, which consists of buses, boats, bicycles, breakfast and books.
She urged the youths to take proper care of the items that they would have received, and she spoke widely of the importance of education and sports.
Meanwhile, Datsie Brusch, who at 96 years is the oldest resident of Guyana’s smallest township, requested and was provided with an electric sewing machine from the Patron’s Fund. She uses the tool to sew shopping bags which she sells at the Rose Hall Market.
