ALL SMILES IN SHERWOOD CONTENT: Living Legend, Usain Bolt, is seen with Trisha Williams-Singh (left), Senior Corporate Relations Manager at Digicel and Samantha Chantrelle, Executive Director of the Digicel Foundation. Occasion was the handing over ceremony of a multipurpose court to his hometown, Sherwood Content in Trelawny. The gift also included the leveling of a playing field for football and other field related sporting activities. Funded by the Digicel Foundation to the tune of J$ 4 million, the multipurpose court will benefit approximately 1500 people in the Sherwood Content community. The handing over event took place at the Sherwood Content Community on Saturday, April 20.
GREAT TURN OUT IN SHERWOOD CONTENT: Usain Bolt in partnership with the
Digicel Foundation handed over a multipurpose court to his hometown, Sherwood
Content in Trelawny. Photo shows (from left): Beverly Atkinson; Samantha
Chantrelle, Executive Director of the Digicel Foundation; Patrick Atkinson,
Member of Parliament for North Trelawny; Joy Clarke, Head of Sales for Digicel
Jamaica’s West and Central divisions; His Worship, the Mayor of Falmouth,
Garth Wilkinson. The gift also
included the leveling of a playing field for football and other field related sporting
activities. Funded by the Digicel Foundation to the tune of J$ 4million, the
multipurpose court will benefit approximately 1500 people in the Sherwood
Content community. The handing over event took place at the Sherwood Content Community
on Saturday, April 20.
FROM: Vicki Cann | PROComm | 876-926-6740
SHERWOOD CONTENT RECEIVES MULTIPURPOSE COURT THROUGH DIGICEL FOUNDATION, USAIN BOLT FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP
Kingston, Jamaica – Saturday April 20, 2013:
Living legend Usain Bolt in partnership with
the Digicel Foundation handed over a multipurpose court to his hometown, Sherwood
Content in Trelawny. The gift also included the levelling of a playing field
for football and other field related sporting activities. Funded by the Digicel
Foundation to the tune of J$ 4million, the multipurpose court is yet another
example of working for the development of his hometown and is the first step in
Bolt’s plans to revitalize the Sherwood Content Community Centre. The Bolt
Foundation has also been heavily involved in giving back to schools with the
purchase of a school bus for Bolt’s alma mater William Knibb and the donation
of playground equipment to four primary schools in Portland.
The new multipurpose court in Trelawny will benefit
approximately 1500 persons in the Sherwood Content community and the
surrounding areas. The Social Development Commission, on behalf of the Usain
Bolt Foundation, will see to the maintenance of the court and the
implementation of a variety of programmes designed to engage youth and
community members in sporting activities. The handing over event took place at the
Sherwood Content Community on Saturday, April 20.
Usain Bolt and members of the community “christened”
the court with a friendly hoop shooting competition. As part of the festivities, Waldensia Primary
students also performed a moving cultural item. Bolt is a past student of the
school and had previously teamed up with the Digicel Foundation to participate
in Labour Day activities at the institution. The hand over was truly a
community affair with persons coming out to share in the moment.
Commenting on the significance of the hand over, Digicel
Foundation Executive Director, Samantha Chantrelle said that “the link between sports and development has been seen across the globe.
Through
sports we engage our youth to learn positive life skills—teamwork,
responsibility and how to compete fairly. The Digicel Foundation is very happy
to have partnered with the Usain Bolt Foundation in providing the opportunity
for young persons in his hometown to learn these skills.”
‘It’s a great joy to be able to give back to my community and
play my part in creating sporting opportunities for the children. I want to
thank Digicel especially and all who contributed to making this project a
reality,” noted Bolt.
About Digicel Foundation
The Digicel
Foundation is the largest local private sector foundation in Jamaica. Since its
inception in 2004 the Foundation has invested over J$1.2 billion in communities
in which Digicel operates island wide. The Digicel Foundation has been
proactive in the areas of Education, Special Needs, and Community Empowerment.
The Digicel
Foundation has:
- Invested over J$100 million in their Enrichment Initiative in partnership with the Ministry of Education to improve literacy at the primary school level island wide.
- Invested over J$38 million in resource rooms, including science and IT labs, in high schools island-wide.
- Committed to building three Special Needs schools, two of which, the STEP Centre, and NAZ Children’s Centre broke ground in 2012.
- Invested over J$60 million in Community Empowerment initiatives over the past four years, including $10 million annually and $15 million in 2012 to support the National Best Communities Competition and Program.
- Invested $13 million in the ‘Back to Roots—Stronger Roots, Stronger Communities, Stronger Nation.’ The programme aims to help community organizations become more self-reliant by facilitating their transition to social enterprises, by teaching them how to run sustainable community businesses.
For
more information visit our website at www.digiceljamaicafoundation.org
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About the Usain Bolt
Foundation
Mission:
Creation of opportunities through education and cultural development for a
positive change.
Vision: The Usain Bolt Foundation is dedicated to the
legacy for happy children; to enhance the character of children through
education and cultural development, as they live their dreams.
Activities
include:
- Walk-a-thon to raise funds for cardiac surgery for children
- Assistance with a state of the art dining facility at William Knibb Memorial High School
- Infrastructural development of Piedmont Basic and Waldensia Primary Schools
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