St Mary School gets
TOWER Isles, St Mary — Remodelling an old tennis court at Liberty Learning Centre in Tower Isle, St Mary, has always been on the list of things to accomplish, according to the institution’s founder and Principal Rosemarie Brent-harris. She has been dreaming of the project for years, and with a recent donation of US$4,000 she believes work should be completed by early next year.
“We have been wanting to refurbish our old tennis court at the back for years but because we have so many other needs, that [went] on the back burner. Then, here comes a good Samaritan willing to make a difference here at our school,” Brent-harris told the Jamaica Observer.
The donation came from Us-based non-profit sporting organisation, Standard of Athletics (SOA) through its charitable arm Shaping and Preparing Youths (SPY). SOA founder and CEO Anthony Warren explained why he took on the project.
“I know Jamaica is big on sports so contributing to it means a lot to me and I decided to make it my focus,” he said, explaining that he fell in love with the country and its people during his first visit in 2015.
Then last July he and a friend visited Liberty Learning Centre and he realised that the school was desperately in need of sporting equipment.
“I have been giving back to schools in the [United] States for several years now and said to myself, ‘I want to start in Jamaica,’ so I was going around checking out some schools. The first time I visited the school [and] walked around, I realised that they were missing sporting equipment. I spoke with the principal about my interest to donate and she was interested,” Warren shared.
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