Camille Deokie-Gorakh’s ‘love affair’ with education

If there is an iota of contrived modesty somewhere within Camille Deokie-Gorakh, it is smothered beneath a persona that appears instinctively warm and outreaching, a disposition that compels her to tell her own considerable story without overdoing and yet without failing to include the pertinent details, however small those may seem.

At the end of a story littered with witticisms and anecdotes, it eventually dawns on you that in her own particular way she makes a compelling case for being, arguably, one of Guyana’s most accomplished businesswomen, a point that could elude you at first, given her sometimes overwhelming warmth. For over more than two decades, Camille has transformed a childhood enthusiasm for imparting knowledge – as she puts it – “a mission to help the neighbours’ children… into a broader passion for educating the nation’s children.”