THE Aditya Kids Trust Fund Foundation (A.K.T.F.F) out of Toronto, Canada, with its local Chapter at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, in Guyana, made a generous donation of cricket gear to one of Guyana’s most talented young cricketers, Andrew Persaud.Persaud hails from Mahaicony and is presently attending one of Guyana’s top secondary school, Queen’s College and is in Form Three.
Persaud plays Under -15 cricket for his club, Malteenoes Sports Club, and recently represented the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) in the Demerara Inter-association tournament.
His good performance caught the eye of Garvin Nedd who was the coach of the GCA and thus he was selected to represent Demerara in the Inter -county U-15 tournament.
Unfortunately, the young man who started playing cricket at age six had to opt out of the tournament because of his academic commitments at school.
At present he is playing in the GCA Brain Street Under-15 tournament but also has to balance his National Third Form Projects and cricket.
Andrew is very thankful to the AKTFF for its kindness. He pledged to continue to seek excellence in whatever he does. The donation includes a bat, batting pads, batting gloves, cricket boots, thigh pad, mittens, a gear bag along with other items. The entire cost is just over $80 000.
Inderjeet Persaud, our International cricket commentator, who is Andrew’s father, expressed sincere thanks to Archie Mohan the President and CEO of the AKTFF, Toronto, Madramuthu Moonsammy, the President of the Local Chapter and other executives of the organisation for their timely intervention. Premnauth Punwassie, who is also a director, made the presentation to Persaud last Thursday at a grand kite flying competition at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice.
The AKTFF, over the years, has made tangible contributions to hundreds of youths in the field of sports, Computer Science Education, Health and Religious undertakings. For the last two years the organisation has taken its annual Santa Claus Parade to Wakenaam.