US-based charity provides US$35,000 support to Little London High’s projects
LITTLE LONDON, Westmoreland – American-based charity organisation Global Humanity Network Incorporated (GHNI) has provided US$25,000 to fund the renovation of the Physical Education Department at the Little London High School in Westmoreland.
This follows on the heels of the GHNI’s funding of a US$10,000 project to rehabilitate the male bathroom at the school earlier this year.
“The building has fallen into disrepair so what we are doing we started to renovate the building. We raise the money from here (America) and send it to the principal to renovate the building,” said Grace Laing Moore, a board member and co-chair of GHNI.
An appreciative principal of Little London High School, Garfield James, expressed that the GHNI’s investment is fitting as it will provide a fillip for the school to launch a series of sporting programmes, especially cricket, for the new academic school year.
“The intervention by Global Humanity Network Incorporated in the school investing in this project is a timely one and it is long in coming; it is one that is we have been waiting for, for a very long time and with this investment, we will be able to put the institution, come September, in a position where we’ll be able to launch some serious sports programmes, especially when it relates to cricket,” James said.
He expressed hope that Little London High will become the leading school in cricket in western Jamaica.
“We want to become the dominant school in this part of the region when it comes to cricket. There are so many persons within the Diaspora, as well as so many international players have come out of Little London and its environs who love cricket and want to come on board to work with us to develop that particularly sport,” he said.
Laing Moore also expressed that the renovation project, which has already started, should be completed within a month’s time.
She noted that in April some students at the Little London High School were the beneficiaries of food packages from the feeding programme arm of GHNI, dubbed Helping Hands Initiative. She revealed that the gesture will be repeated in September.
“In April we brought down many bags of food and we handed out food. We gave out a variety of food to family members. We intended to give it to elderly but we gave it to the children who took it home. Students at the school picked up the bags and actually took it home to their families,” the GHNI said.
“We are returning in September to again do another feeding programme under the Helping Hands Initiative.”
GHNI, which was founded in January 2022, mainly consists of past students of the Little London High School. It is a non-profit, humanitarian organisation that aims to provide assistance to underdeveloped communities. The high school is one of the organisation’s beneficiaries.
“One of the founders of GHNI, Dr Laxley Stephenson, said he and other co-founders who were alumni of the school saw it as their obligation to give back to their alma mater.
“Many of us who are members of the organisation are from Little London and we actually attended the high school. Even though we are a global organisation we started there. Charity begins at home,” quipped Laing Moore.