RHTY&SC Patron’s Fund donates $250,000 in items to schools, clubs and Memorial Games
Over $250, 000 worth of trophies, medals, framed certificates, educational materials and special gifts were donated over the past week by the 10 cricket teams of the dynamic Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC), under its Patron’s Fund Programme.
RHTY&SC’s Simon Naidu hands over trophies and medals to Sydney Cort of the Port Mourant Primary School
The teams during the month of July will be donating over $2 million worth of items including bicycles, school bags, cricket balls, cricket bats, and educational materials in honour of their patron, President David Granger’s 74th birthday celebration on July 15.
The programmes also include the distribution of food hampers and making a positive difference in the lives of senior citizens.
The teams handed over a large quantity of trophies and medals to over 20 schools at their request, for use at graduation ceremonies, following the announcement of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) results.
Fifteen of those schools also received special prizes such as RHTY&SC school bags and educational materials.
Among those benefiting were the Rose Hall Town, Cropper, Port Mourant, Belvedere and Tain Primary Schools, and the Bohemia Nursery School and the Belvedere Children Play School.
The RHTY&SC also donated a large quantity of trophies, medals, 200 exercise books, and a financial prize to the parents of the late national schools cyclist, Beyoncé Ross, who died last year. The Ross family will be hosting a Day of Sports to add to the cycle race, in the late cyclist’s memory.
The 10 cricket teams of the RHTY&SC on July 2, 2019 also hosted a special edition of their monthly Old Age Pensioners Programme as part of the Patron’s Fund.
Over 200 pensioners were treated to breakfast and refreshments by the teams as they waited to uplift their monthly pensions at the Rose Hall Town Post Office. The teams also arranged for the presence of a medical team from the Port Mourant Hospital to be present during the programme to offer free medical care to the pensioners.
The teams since 2016 have been hosting the breakfast event as part of their personal development programme.
RHTY&SC Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster, who also serves as the current President of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB), hailed the hard work of the cricket teams under the dynamic leadership of Simon Naidu, Keith Hicks, Ravindranauth Kissoonlall and Tyrone Pottaya.
The veteran Secretary/CEO stated that the main objective of the Patron’s Fund was to make a positive difference in the lives of those less fortunate than the players while observing the birthday anniversary of the Club’s Patron.
The RHTY&SC is the only Cricket Club in Guyana to mandate its players to do self-development programmes. The teams will be distributing close to $1 million worth of bicycles and school bags under the Patron’s Fund on July 19.
