Career & Education
November 3, 2012

PHOTO: Asafa gives back

Asafa Powell (right), former world 100m champion and past student of Ewarton Primary School in St Catherine gets a ‘high five’ from excited students as Errol Miller (centre), Chairman of the LIME Foundation shares in the moment.

Powell donated $150,000 of his Olympics gift from the government towards retrofitting the school’s physical education department. His sponsor LIME, donated a desktop computer during their visit to the school last Thursday. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)

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