Overseas-based Guyanese donate educational aids, playground equipment to NA Special Needs School

Children making full use of the playground equipment donated by the GAIL Foundation to the New Amsterdam Special Needs School in Berbice

Some 50 overseas-based Guyanese on Tuesday donated over $1.5M in educational aids and playground equipment to help the differently-abled students of the New Amsterdam Special Needs School.

A total of $1,520,000 (US$7,600) was donated to the project to “give children at the New Amsterdam Special Needs School somewhere to laugh, smile and more importantly, play” through the Giving Abundantly in Life (GAIL) Foundation.

The school is the only one of its kind in Region Six that caters for children with learning disabilities and those who are