Thirty-two teachers from 10 primary schools across Lethem were taught to play mini-volleyball as part of a partnership programme aimed at introducing the sport to their students, through the Physical Education Department-Unit of Allied Arts.
The sessions held on Friday, June 27 at the St Ignatius Benab, were followed by a mini-volleyball festival involving 40 students drawn from the participating primary schools at the same venue, a press release said. At the close of the festival, teachers from each of the participating schools were given a quantity of gear – two volleyballs and a net – to jump-start the programme in their respective schools.
The festival was held via a partnership between the Ministry of Education, the Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) and the Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB). In 2011, the FIVB approved a project proposal to allow the GVF and the ministry to execute 10 festivals per year and it provided 1,200 ‘Cool Valley’ balls to be donated to
