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Friday, February 14, 2025

Scotiabank employees commemorate International Day of Education

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16 days ago
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In com­mem­o­ra­tion of the In­ter­na­tion­al Day of Ed­u­ca­tion on Jan­u­ary 24, Sco­tia­bank em­ploy­ees pro­vid­ed learn­ing ma­te­ri­als to chil­dren at The Hope Cen­tre and, through a part­ner­ship with The Ar­row Foun­da­tion, stu­dents at Tran­quil­li­ty Gov­ern­ment and Pic­cadil­ly Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry Schools.

An ini­tia­tive led by the bank’s Di­versabil­i­ty Em­ploy­ee Re­source Group (ERG) saw em­ploy­ees do­nate ed­u­ca­tion­al games, puz­zles and oth­er learn­ing aids, aimed at sup­port­ing knowl­edge build­ing.

In­di­ra Couch, chair­man of The Hope Cen­tre and Christo­pher Bon­terre, Di­rec­tor of the Ar­row Foun­da­tion ex­pressed grat­i­tude for the ma­te­ri­als.

“Re­gard­less of your back­ground, ed­u­ca­tion is the key. Al­though the em­pha­sis is of­ten on aca­d­e­mics, gain­ing a holis­tic ed­u­ca­tion broad­ens your hori­zons, of­fer­ing new per­spec­tives and un­lock­ing a world of op­por­tu­ni­ties. The Hope Cen­tre thanks Sco­tia­bank’s em­ploy­ees for their gen­er­ous do­na­tions in help­ing to make an im­pact in the lives of chil­dren at the Cen­tre” com­ment­ed Couch.

Bon­terre said, “As we cel­e­brate the In­ter­na­tion­al Day of Ed­u­ca­tion, Ar­row be­lieves all chil­dren should be ed­u­cat­ed so that they can change the world. An ed­u­cat­ed mind can teach many. An ed­u­cat­ed mind is bet­ter than an emp­ty one.”

Gayle Pa­zos, Se­nior VP and Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor, Sco­tia­bank Trinidad and To­ba­go stat­ed, “Sco­tia­bank’s Di­versabil­i­ty ERG em­braces the unique­ness and po­ten­tial in every hu­man be­ing. It is com­mend­able that they iden­ti­fied the op­por­tu­ni­ty to sup­port the learn­ing needs of stu­dents and ral­lied their col­leagues to get in­volved, as ed­u­ca­tion is an es­sen­tial build­ing block for every child to reach their full po­ten­tial, and for so­ci­eties and economies to grow and flour­ish.”


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