–treats underprivileged kids to school supplies, other ‘goodies’

By Vishani Ragobeer

CHILDREN aged four to 12 from the Sophia and Tucville Primary Schools on Thursday benefited from donations of school supplies and goodies from overseas-based Guyanese Kerwin Adams.
Mr Adams noted that he left Guyana’s shores for the U.S.A. when he was just six years old, and has managed to establish himself at a law firm there. During his time overseas, he founded the ‘Lifting Yourself for Tomorrow’s Success’ Foundation, where he carries out ‘toy drives’ for needy children in that country.
“I was blessed enough to be fortunate,” he said, adding that he wanted to give back to children in his home country that may need the extra help.
Adams mentioned that he felt that “the economy in Guyana is bad” and that this is his way of “helping out.”
This is the fifth time he has been doing such an outreach programme in Guyana, and this time he managed to cater for some 40 children from the Sophia and Tucville Primary Schools.
Every year since 2011 he has been treating the children to “goodie bags” and provides them with school supplies such as book bags, books and stationery for the new school year at an event hosted at the South View Tavern in South Ruimveldt.
His cousin, Keisha Adams, he said, is the person who organised the items for this outreach programme and she also assembled the children. Keisha Adams is also President of the “Lifting Yourself for Tomorrow’s Success” organisation.