The ANSA McAL Group has do­nat­ed 100 elec­tron­ic tablets to 10 schools in Ja­maica.

Berg­er Paints Ja­maica, a sub­sidiary of the ANSA McAL Group, do­nat­ed the tablets to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion in Ja­maica from pro­ceeds do­nat­ed to the ANSA McAL Foun­da­tion from the Group’s One Caribbean, One Fu­ture One Yard vir­tu­al ben­e­fit con­cert.

The vir­tu­al con­cert which aired on Oc­to­ber 30 fea­tured artistes from around the re­gion and con­tained an ed­u­ca­tion­al ob­jec­tive which was to pro­vide tech­nol­o­gy to sup­port home-based learn­ing through­out the re­gion.

Over the next few weeks the tablets will be dis­trib­uted to the George Headley Pri­ma­ry School, St Patrick’s Pri­ma­ry School, Uni­ty Pri­ma­ry School, Vil­la Road Pri­ma­ry School, Bromp­ton Pri­ma­ry, Tar­rant High, Bull Sa­van­nah Pri­ma­ry School, McAuley Pri­ma­ry, Pri­o­ry Pri­ma­ry and In­fant Schools and Belle­field High School through the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion’s One Lap­top or Tablet Per Child Ini­tia­tive.

Present at the hand-over cer­e­mo­ny was the Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion, Youth in Ja­maica Fay­val Williams and Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of Berg­er Paints Ja­maica, Shashi Ma­hase while the prin­ci­pals of each of the re­cip­i­ent schools at­tend­ed vir­tu­al­ly.

Ear­li­er this month the ANSA McAL Group joined the list of cor­po­rate donors part­ner­ing with the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion in T&T through the do­na­tion of elec­tron­ic de­vices to stu­dents, un­der the um­brel­la of the Adopt-A-School Pro­gramme.

A do­na­tion of 200 tablets took place at the Ed­u­ca­tion Tow­ers in Port-of-Spain on De­cem­ber 10, which rep­re­sent­ed the first phase of the One Caribbean. One Fu­ture. One Yard vir­tu­al ben­e­fit con­cert.

The ANSA McAL Group al­so com­mit­ted to as­sist­ing with re­gion­al re­mote learn­ing by part­ner­ing with Min­istries of Ed­u­ca­tion in Bar­ba­dos, Grena­da and Guyana.

T&T’s Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly wel­comed the do­na­tion and re­it­er­at­ed her call to oth­er cor­po­rate en­ti­ties to con­tribute to the Adopt-A-School Pro­gramme.

“Once a donor steps for­ward to help our chil­dren, some­one else joins. Our ex­am­ple to­day teach­es chil­dren how to care, in their time, for those who will need their sup­port,” she said.