Beharry on board with RHTY&SC’s ‘YES and NO’ campaign
RHTY&SC CEO Hilbert Foster (right) collects the sponsor’s cheque from Beharry’s Marketing Director Anjuli Beharry-Strand yesterday. (Delano Williams photo)
RHTY&SC CEO Hilbert Foster (right) collects the sponsor’s cheque from Beharry’s Marketing Director Anjuli Beharry-Strand yesterday. (Delano Williams photo)

THE Rose Town Hall Youth and Sports Club’s (RHTY&SC) ‘Say YES to Sports/Education and NO to Drugs/Suicide’, campaign received financial support from the Beharry Group of Companies. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Hilbert Foster made the trip from the Ancient County to the company’s Georgetown Charlotte Street headquarters to collect the sponsorship cheque for an undisclosed amount from Beharry’s Marketing Director Anjuli Beharry-Strand.

According to Foster, the campaign, which targets over 25 000 schoolchildren in Berbice through various forms of media and posters, along with the distribution of pamphlets, is one which the Club takes seriously since it addresses areas that are being taken for granted.
Meanwhile, Beharry-Strand, said that “it was an easy decision for me and my company because we firmly believe in giving back.”
“One of the things we value is that we invest in Guyanese. It’s extremely important because without the support of these youths we wouldn’t have a future in Guyana. If we invest in our children here and now, we have a wonderful opportunity to build something great in Guyana because they will stay, they will invest their time, their money and their lives in their country if they feel they will get something back,” the always joyful Beharry-Strand said.
The Company’s Marketing Director also suggested that such an initiative should reach Georgetown, citing that “a lot of children, some go to school, some don’t, and after they will take to the streets, they buy drugs, they drink alcohol and then they are not children anymore.
“These programmes allow children to do something, turn to sport to showcase their talent, to invest their energies, to have a different outlook on life, to have hope.”
Foster, while thanking Beharry for the support, believes that the use of drugs and other substance abuse leads youths down destructive paths, but pointed out “we (RHTY&SC) are the only ones that tend to do off-the-field activities and it doesn’t make sense where youths are just playing the game of cricket.
“I have many incidents where some of them don’t even know the president of the Guyana Cricket Board or the West Indies Cricket Board. They don’t know the danger of drugs.”
The club’s long-serving administrator made an appeal to the federations and associations of other sport disciplines to get involved in saving the lives of the country’s most valuable assets – the youths.
Thousands of fliers, posters and other items will be distributed and posted in schools, including tertiary institutions as the RHTY&SC plays its part in the fight to save the country’s future generation.

(By Rawle Toney)

 

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