THE management, staff and graduates of the Guyana Training College for International Skills, located at 60 Station Street, Kitty last Wednesday hosted a Christmas party for children of the Red Cross Convalescent Home, D’Urban Backlands.Held at the College, the party which catered for some 25 children, including the mentally challenged, was organised through the initiative of Director of the Guyana Training College, Ms. Maylene Singh.

Singh who has remigrated to Guyana after residing in Canada for more than 40 years, says she loves caring for needy people, children and the elderly. She says she’s been performing such humanitarian acts from time to time, but this has been the first for the Red Cross Convalescent Home.
Whereas she’s been taking cheer to the needy and/or vulnerable, on this occasion she opted to bring the children to the College, so as to present them with the ideal ‘day out’, and experience what the world outside the Rehabilitation Centre is like.
The kids were given a catered meal and snacks and Santa was also there to add to their fun and amusement, and to present each of them with a toy. They were entertained by the Police band and were enthralled by the lusty singing of Christmas carols.
On this grand occasion, the kids were made to feel special since they were accorded individual attention. One student of the college was assigned to each child whom they served, allowing them to exercise the power of choice as to what they would prefer.
They escorted them up to Santa to receive their toys and it was certainly a learning experience for the students who enjoyed every moment of it.

Before the day was out, the kids all had new-found friends, and were pampered with an abundance of love.
Maylene Singh, who hails from Plantation Foulis, West Coast Berbice, first returned to Guyana from Canada in 2005 with her husband, Howard Narine Singh and their two sons, Dr. Shawn Singh and Christopher Singh, both of whom are Canadians.
She opened up her school in August 2005, conducting classes at Ocean View International Hotel and in June 2007 relocated to 60 Station Street, now a permanent establishment.
Courses delivered are Care for the Elderly; Care for Children; First Aid and Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation and Health and Safety Practices.
Mrs. Singh’s vision is that by the end of her tenth year in business (2015) she would move on to open up a second campus, this time in Berbice and add more training programmes to suit the needs of Guyanese and other nationalities.