Youth cricketers benefit from BCB/Cricket Kindness Project

-clubs and schools to benefit soon

A host of young and promising cricketers in the ancient county of Berbice last weekend benefited from donation of cricket gears from the Berbice Cricket Board-organized Cricket Kindness Project.
The youths were drawn from across the county, and were selected by their respective clubs based on their discipline, attitude, and need for cricket gear.
The presentation was done in the compound of the St Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church in Port Mourant, and was done via a transparent system supervised by BCB President Hilbert Foster, Secretary Angela Haniff, Public Relations Officer Jonathan Rampersaud, and executive members Gregory Crandon and Narine Deonarine.
Foster has said that the project actually started in late 2020, when former England Test player Roland Butcher contacted him to inform that he was submitting the BCB’s name to a group named Cricket Kindness, for possible assistance in the form of cricket gear.
Foster disclosed that the head of that organisation, Ms. Tamara Lowe, requested a comprehensive proposal, which was submitted by the BCB.
Cricket Kindness is an England-based charitable organisation that assists clubs, youth players and schools with cricket gear. The group works collaboratively with a wide range of former Test players like Butcher, Chris Lewis, Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Gordon Greenidge and Sir Richie Richardson, among others, to gather support and funds to make its operation successful. The group receives gear on an annual basis from supporters across the United Kingdom, especially current players, schools and cricket teams.

Foster hailed Ms. Lowe for her dedication to the effort of making a possible difference in the Caribbean, with countries like Barbados, St Kitts and Antigua benefiting in the past from millions of dollars’ worth of cricket gear.
Cricketing legends Sir Vivian Richards and Sir Gordon Greenidge were recently involved in Cricket Kindness programmes in Antigua and Barbados respectively.
Special gratitude has been extended to the management and staff of ECU Worldwide, for their assistance in getting the much-needed gear moved from England to Guyana free of cost. Gratitude has also been extended to Minister Charles Ramson and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport for their support in getting the gear duty-free into the country.
The BCB has also expressed gratitude to Mr. Carl Griffith and team from Laparkan for their cooperation and support in regard to the gear getting into Guyana.
Among the gear distributed were bats, batting gloves and pads, wicket-keeping gloves, helmets, forearm guards, chest pads and thigh pads.
Six clubs across the county also received white cricket uniforms for junior members.
Eighteen members of Berbice under-15 teams also received coloured t-shirts under the project, and 16 youths also carried home cricket boots.
The distribution would continue on Sunday April 24 during the BCB Annual Awards Ceremony, with several schools and clubs that have youth sections receiving gear to assist in their cricket development programmes.
The players and representatives of the clubs have all expressed thanks to Ms Tamara Lowe, Cricket Kindness, and ECU Worldwide for their assistance, and have pledged to take care of the cricket gear. Players were drawn from Bush Lot United, Achievers, Cotton Tree, Bath, Albion, Guymine, Albion, Port Mourant, RHTY&SC, Skeldon, Radha Krishna, No 73 Young Warriors, Line Path and Scottsburg among others.