STUDENTS and staff returned to Windsor School of Special Education on Monday with renewed minds and spirits following beautification works done on Labour Day.

The project was spearheaded by Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Media Group in collaboration with the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists’ Youth Ministries Department as part of the ninth staging of
NCU FM’s Acts of Kindness School Tour.

Patricia Grant, NCU Media Group’s manager of special events and projects, said at the time they chose the school for their Labour Day project, they had no idea that the theme would be ‘Ramp up the access…Show that you care’, which focused on making public spaces more accessible for the vulnerable and persons with disabilities.

“It was a coincidence. It’s all a part of God’s plan,” a NCU news release quotes Grant.

“This Labour Day project is a pilot project. The Windsor School wanted to be a part of our Acts of Kindness Tour, but based on what happens on the tour…many students would not be able to participate, but we still wanted them to feel like a part of it, and so we took the Labour Day project here,” she explained.

Several volunteers, including teachers and students from the school, painted the general assembly point, renovated the bathrooms’ plumbing, updated signs and posters, and engaged in general clean-up activities, including the installation of garbage drums around the property.

Additionally, the community was the beneficiary of a free mobile health clinic.

“We serve a special population. These are some students…what seems minor to you can really throw them off, so this is important that these students will see an environment immaculate [and] conducive to learning” said Kimela Jarrett-Johnstone, principal of Windsor School of Special Education.

Pastor Dane Fletcher, youth ministries director of the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, explained that the volunteers were eager to be a part of the project.

“Our young people are always excited to be involved and so it was an easy decision to be a part of this initiative, considering that it’s a part of our strategic objectives to make a positive impact in the community,” he said.