The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sport Club (RHTYSC) donated a quantity of items to the Berbice Dharm Shala Senior Citizens’ Home at the launching of its 2007 $5M charity programme.
According to a press release RHTYSC Chief Executive Officer Hilbert Foster handed over $100,000 worth of items including foodstuff and a pair of footwear for each inmate, to the home’s secretary Mariva Persaud. Foster said the items were purchased with money set aside for welfare assistance to the elderly. He also called on citizens to show more compassion to elderly persons as they have laid the foundation for the successes enjoyed today.
Persaud, in accepting the donation expressed gratitude to the club and called on other organisations to assist. She also pointed out that the home needed a “facelift” which Foster said the club would undertake.
Meanwhile the RHTYSC also donated a $10,000 food hamper to 93-year-old Ivanorie Wilson of New Amsterdam and two sets of cricket wickets, valued at $8,000 to the Bush Lot Cricket Club. Foster said the club also plans to prepare 1,000 meals per week for less fortunate persons and distribute about $2M worth of clothing, foodstuff and footwear to more than 3000 families. It will also provide medical assistance to senior citizens and $1M worth of school items including exercise books and school bags to hundreds of needy children. Additionally the club will distribute monthly hampers to 36 senior citizens and 12 single-parent households.
It also said businessman and social activist Peter Ramsaroop has been appointed the club’s permanent patron.
In November 2004 Ramsaroop was appointed patron for a two-year period, which ended last month, but the members decided to change its terms and gave him a permanent post as he made a great impact on the club during his stewardship.
In response Ramsaroop said he was delighted to be associated with “Guyana’s most dynamic youth and sports organisation” and pledged to work with the management and members to make a positive impact in the lives of the youth, the poor and elderly.
Other members who were re-elected to serve two-year posts in the executive include Keith Foster, president; Hilbert Foster, Secretary and CEO; Farouk Kudrath, assistant secretary; Dawn Hicks, treasurer; Stanley Alexander, organising secretary and office manager; Moonish Singh, assistant office manager/public relations officer; Ravin Kissoonlall, assistant organising secretary and committee members Sohan Harry and Vee Fraser.
Hicks will lead the club’s 2007 Charity Programme Committee, Kudrath, the Educational Committee, Frankly Ross the Discipline Committee and Alexander the Social Committee.
