RHTY&SC and Rossignol Meat Processors join hands to assist Cricket Clubs

Jul 19, 2017 Sports, http://www.kaieteurnewsonline....ssist-cricket-clubs/

Several Cricket Clubs in the ancient county of Berbice would receive assistance in the form of cricket balls from a sponsorship deal between the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS, and the Suriname owned Rossignol Meat Processors. The Church Street, Georgetown based Company on Saturday last handed over a cheque for $100,000 (one hundred thousand dollars) to the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS, Patron’s Outreach Programme. The donation would be used by the eight cricket teams of Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation to assist their peers in other clubs.
The eight cricket teams – Farfan & Mendes Under-15, Bakewell Under-17 and Second Division, Pepsi Under-19 and Intermediate, Metro Females, Gizmos & Gadgets Under-21 and First Division teams have together won 54 major cricket championships since 1992 including three national championships. Long serving Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster stated that over the years the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club has been very passionate about assisting other clubs across Guyana as it would enable them to offer sports as an alternative to a life with drugs, crime, violence and alcohol. Noting, that when the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club was founded in 1990, there was about 130 cricket clubs in Berbice, Foster stated that there are less than forty currently. Most of the forty clubs are unable to purchase cricket balls and gears and as such depends heavily on the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club for survival.
The donation from Rossignol is the first of its kind to the 2016 Cricket Club of the Year Awardee and Foster expressed confidence that the relationship between the Company and the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club would be strengthened in the future. The cricket balls would be shared out of Friday during a special Ceremony under the Patron’s Fund. A total of $500,000 (five hundred thousand dollars) worth of cricket balls would be shared out to clubs. Among the clubs that would receive balls are Blairmont, Bush Lot, Young Achievers, Young Warriors, Chesney, No. 19, No. 53, Kildonan and Whim.
The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club Secretary/CEO expressed gratitude to Country Manager Marcel D’Haese and Administrative Manager Regina Low-Koon for their assistance in obtaining the sponsorship and disclosed that the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club would promote Rossignol Meat Processors widely across Berbice.
Administrative Manager, Regina Low-Koon, expressed confidence that the programme would be a success and that the cricket balls would assist the clubs to produce cricketers for Berbice, Guyana and the West Indies.