STUDENTS of Class A 217 of the overseas-based Nancy Campbell Collegiate Institute
(www.nancycampbell.net) have recently donated school supplies to the Covent Garden Primary School on the East Bank Demerara.

That donation was made by Miss Canada 2012, Jaclyn Miles, while on a recent visit to Guyana.

Among the items donated were crayons, pencils, pens and writing pads.

Miles said: “I visited Nancy Campbell Collegiate Institute and told the kids about my intended trip to Guyana and how the school children would love help with school supplies, and they readily donated items.”

A thank-you note from the students of Covent Garden Primary School was sent to the students of Class A 217 of the Nancy Campbell Collegiate Institute. It read: “We would also like to thank you for such a gesture. We are certainly happy, and will use the items effectively in the teaching and learning process.”

The Nancy Campbell Collegiate Institute is a pre-K through 12th/OAC Grades (day school or residential) Canadian accredited international private Bahá’í school, now located in London, Ontario, Canada. Emphasizing its “twin pillars” of academic excellence and a clear moral framework, NCCI satisfies the Ministry of Education (Ontario) standards leading to the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD).

The Institute was named after Nancy Campbell (1905-1980), an accomplished pianist, artist, actress and dancer, who lived as a “world citizen” motivated by her belief in the Bahá’í faith.
Campbell worked to promote the ideal of the oneness of humanity, and was a dynamic speaker who travelled throughout the world giving lectures on peace and world unity.
Breakwell Education Inc. established the NCCI in 1994.
Within seven years of its founding, NCCI was among 16 schools rated number one in a Fraser Institute survey of 816 Ontario high schools.

Under supervision of class teacher Aaron Pickup, the students decided to “lend support to the lovely people she met there” (in Guyana), and donated boxes of school supplies, saying, “We hope that you enjoy these donations, we collected them just for you. We really hope that everyone gets what they wanted. We’re sorry if not everybody got the same thing, we ran out of stuff, but we would hope it is enough.”

Meanwhile, Ms Stacey Gonsalves-Ibrahim, Covent Garden Primary School Head Teacher, said thus upon receiving the items: “The staff and students of Covent Garden Primary were indeed grateful that the institute had chosen them, and took the opportunity to wish the institute continuous success in their endeavours.”

Pic saved as School Gifts.