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Friday, February 28, 2025

SAGHS celebrates its scholars

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Jesse Ramdeo
723 days ago
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President's Medal winner Saira Mohammed with her parents Sheraaz and Sherina Mohamed.

President's Medal winner Saira Mohammed with her parents Sheraaz and Sherina Mohamed.

St Au­gus­tine Girl’s High School’s (SAGHS) schol­ar­ship win­ners were re­mind­ed yes­ter­day that their jour­ney to ex­cel­lence will cov­er paths be­yond aca­d­e­mics. The nine awardees were en­cour­aged to con­tin­ue blaz­ing trails while be­ing the best ver­sions of them­selves.

Among those ho­n­oured dur­ing the recog­ni­tion cer­e­mo­ny at the school’s au­di­to­ri­um was Saira Mo­hammed, who won the Pres­i­dent’s Medal. She and the oth­er schol­ars were treat­ed to a rip-roar­ing wel­come from stu­dents and teach­ers.

Lead­ing the as­sem­bly in prayer and thanks­giv­ing was chap­lin Rev. Dr Annabelle Lal­la-Ramkhelawan, fol­lowed by a per­for­mance by the school’s choir.

A teacher, iden­ti­fied as Mr Thomp­son, re­marked that the girls’ achieve­ments on the cusp of In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day was a tri­umph.

“I want to re­mind you all that a few decades ago women were not al­lowed to have an ed­u­ca­tion, or to vote or any sort of things like that. Decades lat­er and we can see why women were not al­lowed to vote, to see why women were not al­lowed to get an ed­u­ca­tion be­cause you all are bet­ter than men most of the time,” he said

Solange Joseph said fam­i­ly sup­port was key to her suc­cess.

“Every­thing I am, I owe it to my par­ents. They have worked and con­tin­ue to work tire­less­ly to make sure I have a bet­ter life than they did. They have giv­en up every­thing and more so that I can have op­por­tu­ni­ties that nev­er did,” she said.

Maali Rose cred­it­ed her suc­cess to her class­mates and men­tors:”Thank you for giv­ing me the unique SAGHS ex­pe­ri­ence that I would not ex­change for any­thing else in the world, I’m grate­ful to have grown up here with all of you.”

Rev­erend Joy Ab­dul-Mo­han, Mod­er­a­tor of the Pres­by­ter­ian Church, said aca­d­e­m­ic suc­cess was on­ly a step­ping stone to fur­ther ex­cel­lence which should spill out­side the class­room.

“Al­ways re­mem­ber that you were cho­sen for a pur­pose, let not your ed­u­ca­tion make you brighter but let your ed­u­ca­tion make you bet­ter hu­man be­ings. Bet­ter women, men, young peo­ple and chil­dren,” she said.


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