Digicel Guyana on Thursday January 29th, made several donations; these were to the Parkside Steel Orchestra, Queens College and the Ministry of Health’s National Sports Clinic. The Parkside Steel Orchestra benefits from an annual sponsorship cheque from Digicel in support of Guyana’s Mashramani Celebrations. Digicel is one of the major sponsors of the Parkside Steel Orchestra in the Guyana’s Panorama Steel Pan Competition. The Parkside Steel Orchestra was formed in 1998 as an after-school activity for students, and has evolved over the years into a full steel orchestra with more than 40 members, including children and adults.
Digicel also made a donation to Queen’s College Secondary School in support of their participation in the Barbados Relay competition to be held on February 10-15th. This will assist Queens College in sending three student teams to participate in the relay. Each team has five members; QC participated in this competition from 2005-2011, in 2011 they walked away with silver and bronze medals.
In addition to supporting the development of young people through arts and sports in Guyana, Digicel also made a commitment to support the re-launch of the National Sports Clinic. This clinic was operation some years ago, but stopped operation. The re-launch of the clinic is expected to in mid- February of this year. Digicel has committed to donate several pieces of equipment to the sports clinic.