Scotiabank/Guyana Book Foundation donate 150 books to East Coast schools

Scotiabank’s Jennifer Cipriani (centre, right) presents a collection of books to the teachers and students of one of the recipient schools of its Bright Futures partnership with the Guyana Book Foundation.

Scotiabank, through its Bright Future Programme, recently partnered with the Guyana Book Foundation to donate over 150 books to two East Coast Demerara schools in observance of Education Month.

The books were presented to the Beterverwagting/Quamina and Lusignan Primary schools at a simple ceremony hosted at the bank’s Robb Street branch in support of the Book Foundation’s book donation drive that targeted 65 nursery, primary and secondary schools in Region Four.

The book donation drive is one of the Book Foundation’s ongoing projects, in keeping with its goal to improve children’s literacy countrywide, Scotiabank said in a