RHTY&SC, with support from Mike’s Pharmacy, donates to two hospitals in East Berbice

RHTY&SC’s 30th anniversary celebrations continue…

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC), with its ten cricket teams and with support from Mike’s Pharmacy of Lot 1 Blygezight Gardens in Georgetown, has made donations to two public hospitals in East Berbice (Region 6) as part of its 30th anniversary celebrations.

The donations were made earlier this week, and the beneficiary hospitals are the Port Mourant Public Hospital and the Mibicuri Public Hospital, both on the Corentyne Coast. Donations were made under the joint RHTY&SC/BCB/Basil Butcher Memorial Project. Secretary/ CEO of the RHTY&SC, who is also President of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB), Hilbert Foster, along with RHTY&SC Asst Secretary/CEO Simon Naidu and RHTY&SC Vice President Mark Papannah, visited the hospitals to personally hand over the donations.
Foster disclosed that the RHTY&SC is hosting a reduced list of programmes to mark its historic 30th anniversary. Special emphasis is being placed on assisting the less fortunate, and on donating to public institutions like hospitals, Police and fire stations, and schools.

The RHTY&SC, he has said, is very committed to making a positive difference in the lives of residents in the county of Berbice.
The Port Mourant Hospital received three electric fans, while the Mibicuri Hospital received a variety of items, including two electric fans, electric iron, stationery, water mugs, measuring tapes, children’s story books, large and small clocks, pampers’ bags, calculators, and a small water pitcher among other items. This donation to the Port Mourant Hospital is the seventh of its kind since last March.
Foster has hailed the outstanding work of Dr Sukhdeo of the Port Mourant Hospital and Dr Sultan of the Mibicuri Hospital, whom he has praised for outstanding leadership and service. The RHTY&SC, Foster said, would continue to assist these institutions as much as possible, and would also shortly be making donations to other public institutions as it continues to celebrate its formation thirty years ago by three-time Commonwealth Youth Service Awardee the St Francis Community Developers.
Having had very humble beginnings, the RHTY&SC is now widely considered Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation, and has an unmatched list of activities and achievements. Under a wide range of sub-headings, including sports, charity, education, community development and youth development, the RHTY&SC undertakes 700 activities every year, and is the only sports and youth organisation in Guyana to have received a national award.
On the cricket field, it has won a total of 98 cricket tournaments; produced a combined 105 cricketers for Berbice, Guyana and the West Indies; and is home to Guyana’s only female cricket team.
Among projects completed to date in its reduced 30th anniversary celebrations are: restoration of the club’s office; repairs to the sanitary block at the Area H Ground; distribution of sports gear to dozens of youths; sharing out of food hampers and donations to a wide range of public institutions; unveiling of its all-time male and female cricket teams; and the sharing out of school bags to less fortunate students.
Later in this month, the RHTY&SC would launch its anniversary magazine and host another twelve programmes, including feeding of the elderly; senior citizens’ breakfast programme; spelling bee competition; and donating bicycles to students. Under the joint RHTY&SC/BCB /Basil Butcher Memorial Project, a total of four million dollars’ worth of food hampers, stationery, office items, cricket gear, footwear, household utilities, school bags, educational materials, chicken products, scorebooks and cleaning detergents have been donated to communities across Berbice.
The ten cricket teams of the RHTY&SC, MS, are: The Poonai Pharmacy Under-12 and Under-13; Farfan and Mendes Under 15; Bakewell Under 17 and second division; Pepsi Under- 19 and Intermediate; Metro Females, and Namilco Thunder under-21 and first division.