Parents get ease with school items
Minister Christopher Sinckler, showing some of the school items available to assist parents in the Back-To-School Programme. (Picture by Lennox Devonnish)
Thu, August 26, 2010 - 12:00 AM
BACK-TO-SCHOOL preparations can pose a great challenge for some households, especially during this current economic downturn.
But come next month, as many as 300 students could be smiling and fully decked out for school – thanks to the St Michael North-West Constituency branch of the Democratic Labour Party.
Member of Parliament for the area, Christopher Sinckler, said the constituency’s Back-To-School Programme, which is in its third year, would provide much needed assistance to some parents in
Black Rock and neighbouring areas.
Sinckler, who is also Minister of Social Care, Constituency Empowerment, Urban and Rural Development, said the aid included stationery, shoes, bags and some school uniforms. He noted that other constituencies were doing a “similar thing”.
“In some instances where it is required, we also assist with supplying textbooks for primary schoolchildren. This year we anticipate about 200 persons . . . And that is what we have registered.
It is possible we may have additional persons coming who were not registered, so we might end up with about 300,” Sinckler said.
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Minister Sinckler I laud your initiative and programme. 4/30.
Keep up the Good Work.
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Comment LinkThis is great! This is what I call proactive. Many parents are struggling to get stuff for the coming school year. I hope a lot more constituencies are doing stuff like this. Great job Chris!
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Comment LinkThis is exactly the mendicant society that Errol Barrow referred to.
While I know that there will always be people among us who need extra help, I find this display by Chris Sinckler to be crass.
By all means help the less fortunate, but don’t plaster it all over the newspaper.
I wonder if he has stopped to think why he will get more people signing up this year. Could it be the wonderful job his Government is doing managing the economy?
Shame on you Chris you should know better. True charity does not need to be advertised.
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