The Drop-in Centre in Hadfield Street and the Generation Next Training Centre, which is run by the First Assembly of God Church on D’Urban Street were beneficiaries of 24 and 15 Acer Computer Tablets respectively, compliments of Fox News Digital Education Department through US-based Guyanese Karl Moore.
Moore, an Information Technology Process and Security Specialist, who runs his own company, Southern Systems, is also a consultant for Fox and had worked there for nine years in the past.
He said his aim was to improve the spread of IT in Guyana and this year’s donation is a follow up from last year when he had donated 16 tablets with some 500 books loaded on each one to the Gillian Thompson Collection in the National Library, so named after the former chief librarian who was killed in a car crash on Christmas Eve in 2013.
Dr Mellissa Ifill was instrumental in securing the donation for the Drop-in Centre and its Manager Melissa Gentle expressed gratitude pledging that the children housed there will benefit from the use of the tablets.
Over at Generation Next, Pastor Wilfred Lee thanked Moore for the gifts.
The training centre caters for disadvantaged children and the tablets would assist in their development, providing a boost for the centre’s IT lab. This donation was secured through Vanessa Thompson and the Gillian Thompson Foundation.
