Pupils of Gaines Nor­mal AME Pri­ma­ry School in Port-of-Spain have been giv­en a fur­ther tool to suc­ceed in their stud­ies in the form of a new pho­to­copi­er do­nat­ed by en­er­gy com­pa­ny bpTT.

Stan­dard Four pupil, Journee Charles, ex­plained the im­por­tance of the equip­ment to the stu­dents. "This pho­to­copi­er will al­low us to share re­search for projects and our teach­ers can copy hand­outs and ques­tion pa­pers for us. There are so many ways that we will ben­e­fit and the in­for­ma­tion will help us to do bet­ter in ex­ams. We are re­al­ly glad that bpTT helped us with this copi­er and we will make good use of it."

A re­lease from bpTT said the ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the en­tire school body was clear­ly ev­i­dent when Ron­da Fran­cis, cor­po­rate re­spon­si­bil­i­ty man­ag­er, bpTT, vis­it­ed the school to make the han­dover last week.

"Ed­u­ca­tion is one of our main pil­lars of in­vest­ment and runs the gamut from pre-pri­ma­ry straight up to the post­grad­u­ate lev­el. We fund a num­ber of pro­grammes rang­ing from re­me­di­al learn­ing to the pro­vi­sion of schol­ar­ships and in­cen­tives for out­stand­ing per­for­mance.

"For every in­di­vid­ual that we help through the av­enue of ed­u­ca­tion, we be­lieve that it is one more path­way for our na­tion to achieve its full po­ten­tial. This is es­pe­cial­ly true for the young stu­dents in whom our fu­ture lies," Fran­cis ex­plained.

With a pop­u­la­tion of 155 stu­dents, the copi­er will ser­vice the needs of the en­tire school and comes at a crit­i­cal time as Stan­dard Five stu­dents are in full swing prepar­ing for their SEA ex­am­i­na­tions.

Prin­ci­pal of Gaines Nor­mal, Kathy-Ann Whiskie, was thank­ful for the as­sis­tance. "In 2010, bpTT helped our school with a com­put­er and that was an in­valu­able tool for our stu­dents.

"We con­tact­ed them in No­vem­ber last year for help with the pho­to­copi­er and they re­spond­ed pos­i­tive­ly. In fact, they have helped stu­dents at all lev­els across the coun­try and their con­tri­bu­tion has en­er­gised minds and changed lives. This unit will ben­e­fit all our stu­dents, teach­ers and even mem­bers of the PTA, in mak­ing every ef­fort to help these fu­ture lead­ers to suc­ceed," Whiskie point­ed out.

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