Uni­com­er (Trinidad) Ltd re­cent­ly part­nered with Unit­ed Way T&T to trans­form the Ed­in­burgh Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School for their Na­tion­al Day of Car­ing ini­tia­tive.

The move, which was geared to­wards pos­i­tive­ly im­pact­ing the Ch­agua­nas school’s en­vi­ron­ment for stu­dents and staff, brought to­geth­er 70-plus vol­un­teers com­pris­ing main­ly of Uni­com­er team mem­bers, school per­son­nel, par­ents and some ex­ter­nal part­ners in a shared vi­sion to en­hance the school’s learn­ing space.

The key ac­tiv­i­ties in­clud­ed paint­ing the school’s ex­te­ri­or walls around the court­yard, land­scap­ing the for­ward-fac­ing grounds and re­mov­ing old tyres that pre­vi­ous­ly oc­cu­pied a space in the school’s frontage.

The ini­tia­tive was made pos­si­ble through the gen­er­ous sup­port of sev­er­al part­ners.

Sher­win Williams do­nat­ed over 70 gal­lons of paint, brush­es and sev­er­al dis­pos­able items, en­abling the vi­brant trans­for­ma­tion of the ex­te­ri­or walls. Tidy Hands Land­scap­ing Ser­vices pro­vid­ed their ex­per­tise, con­tribut­ing plants, soil and mulch to en­hance the school’s en­try­way. Their team al­so ed­u­cat­ed the school’s prin­ci­pal and vol­un­teers on prop­er plant main­te­nance, thus en­sur­ing the sus­tain­abil­i­ty of the new im­prove­ments.

Fur­ther sup­port came from Tweety’s Trans­porta­tion, who con­tributed labour for the re­moval and dis­pos­al of the old tyres, pro­mot­ing a clean­er and safer en­vi­ron­ment for the school com­mu­ni­ty.

Fi­nal­ly, CKC Con­struc­tion was sched­uled to vis­it the school to sort through and re­move old fur­ni­ture.

In a re­lease, Uni­com­er Group said its 2026 Day of Car­ing project con­nects the com­pa­ny’s sus­tain­abil­i­ty fo­cus with Unit­ed Way’s strate­gic ed­u­ca­tion net­work and fo­cus on child­hood suc­cess. Recog­nis­ing that com­pa­nies of­ten ex­tract eco­nom­ic val­ue from com­mu­ni­ties, Uni­com­er Group said it seeks to rein­vest in­to these com­mu­ni­ties through var­i­ous al­tru­is­tic ven­tures.

Speak­ing dur­ing the event, Uni­com­er (Trinidad) Ltd. man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Shi­va Mun­gal ex­plained why the school was cho­sen.

He said, “This pri­ma­ry school is lo­cat­ed with­in one of the com­mu­ni­ties in which we, as the Uni­com­er Group, op­er­ates, pri­mar­i­ly through the Courts brand. As a com­pa­ny, we be­lieve it’s im­por­tant for us to con­tin­ue con­tribut­ing to these com­mu­ni­ties and through our part­ners at Unit­ed Way, we have iden­ti­fied this school as one that re­al­ly need­ed some help.”

He al­so praised the pow­er of part­ner­ship and giv­ing back time, not­ing the project could not be com­plet­ed with­out the time-based sac­ri­fice of staff and as­sis­tance from part­ners.

Ed­in­burgh Gov­ern­ment act­ing prin­ci­pal Adel­la Nev­er­son praised the project, sug­gest­ing that a clean en­vi­ron­ment was con­ducive to the learn­ing process. She said stu­dents are pos­i­tive­ly im­pact­ed by learn­ing in an en­vi­ron­ment in which they can take pride.

She added, “Projects like this are im­por­tant be­cause it builds com­mu­ni­ty. It fol­lows the say­ing that a com­mu­ni­ty builds a child, so when com­pa­nies like Uni­com­er part­ner with the school, we fos­ter com­mu­ni­ty out­reach and de­vel­op­ment. These stu­dents will even­tu­al­ly have an im­pact on their com­mu­ni­ties, so they need to know that adults ap­pre­ci­ate them and are will­ing to work for their ben­e­fit.”

For more in­for­ma­tion on Uni­com­er’s cor­po­rate so­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty ini­tia­tives, vis­it In­sta­gram: https://www.in­sta­gram.com/court­st­nt/

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