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Hello my name is Alister Albert, a St. Lucian native currently working for a Local Authority in the UK.
As part of my previous role during tenure within the Authority, as a Sports Development Officer, I assisted with the coordination and management of an initiative aimed at getting children active and engaged with sports they may not normally have access to in their school or may be out of their range financially to participate out of school hours.
On a recent trip home to St. Lucia, I had the privilege to discuss my sport development background with a primary school Principal, highlighting some of the benefits/opportunities sporting activity created for kids in the UK and how it can be linked to community clubs, pathways to ongoing athletic engagement and membership to these local clubs via partnership programs
Alongside my former Art teacher Luigi St. Omer, who himself was a well regarded national athlete and a major advocate of sport engagement at my secondary school, we spoke to the Principal of the Des Barras Primary School, who is now keen on replicating smaller programmes within his curriculum, with his newly appointed PE teacher.
Being a small school, the Principal and PE teacher believe it should be manageable to supplement the students’ learning and development with competitive sport, also with the intention to build healthy and active lifestyles and foster a competitive spirit for the youngsters. Unfortunately with little to no government funding and parents in the small community not being able to go deep into their pockets to contribute, sporting equipment is nearly next-to-nothing at the school.
Fortunately since my return, I was able to secure £500 in donations to buy brand new equipment and also thankfully, I have been able secure pledges of used sports equipment from a few local UK schools for Des Barras and another primary school, the St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Boys. This has been a massively rewarding exercise to help schools on the island get equipment that would help their children engage with sports and also give them more opportunity to interact with an activity they may very well have an innate talent in.
I would be absolutely grateful and honoured if you too would like to help me raise funds for the purchase of NEW equipment for these children of St. Lucia. It is my intention to continue to grow this as much as I can, (in addition to the 2 schools mentioned above) so this can reach as many children, in many schools on the island as possible. With your generosity and help, many St. Lucian children would be able to not only have access to fun activities, but very likely you can help spark a child's interest in sport, which can aid his/her personal development and possibly even forge a path towards a professional career in their chosen sport.
Once all donations have been received, I will contact the additional schools to assess their immediate needs to purchase relevant equipment and will organise shipment of items to St. Lucia to be distributed to them.
I hope you find this exercise worthwile and also will be willing to donate via FundRazr. As an initial target, I would like to double the £500 that was originally donated to me and achieve £1000 to help cover costs etc, but it would be absolutely appreciated if we can go past this to help as many as possible.
If you require any further information/details or would like to donate by other channels please feel free to contact me at:
Alister Albert
Email: alisteralbert9@gmail.com
Twitter: @akca_9
I look forward to hearing from you and thanks a million in advance! :)
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