Skinny offers assistance to four families

For the next school term, the parents of four lucky Grade 6 pupils should have fewer worries in relation to providing their children with school supplies, thanks to the Skinny Fabulous Grade 6 scholarship initiative.{{more}}

Implemented last year, the Skinny Fabulous Grade 6 scholarship is the brainchild of local soca artiste Gammal “Skinny Fabulous” Doyle.

According to the mega artiste, the objective is to provide the selected students with a full one-year scholarship.

The four students, Trevicia Lavia – Sandy Bay Government, Shauntae Jarvis – Kingstown Government School, Brianna Montrope – Chateaubelair Government and Junior Hanson of the Mayreau Primary – were presented their scholarships on Tuesday, at a press briefing held at the Carnival Development Corporation conference room.

“We believe that this scholarship will encourage children to work harder during Grade 5 in order to be rewarded. We also believe that their hard work would follow suit through their final year in primary school and to secondary school thereafter,” Doyle said.

Selected students will be supplied with the necessary school supplies, including clothing, bookbags, pencils, pens and exercise and textbooks.

The textbooks, however, will be recollected at the end of the school year, in order for them to be used by future scholars, Doyle said.

According to Skinny, as he is more popularly known, the students were selected by the Ministry of Education, “who carefully selected the four students, as they saw the need for assistance.”

Senior Education Officer in the Ministry of Education Carlton Hall said the Ministry was pleased to have collaborated with Skinny and his Stickman Entertainment and commended the artiste for the initiative to assist the nation’s youth to obtain a proper education.

Hall also spoke of the various businesses and institutions that have, over the years, contributed to assisting young people with education, and for the first time, a young artiste has taken up the challenge to do the same.

“We have somebody in the entertainment field who has experienced some measure of success and is willing to give back and who considers education to be as important as anything else in the World,” Hall said.

He, however, informed the recipients that they will need to maintain the qualities they have displayed, which allowed them to receive the scholarships.

“When one gets a scholarship, you’re expected to present to the sponsor periodic reports on your performance, which should be good in order to maintain the scholarship, and Skinny said it, you must be of good conduct,” he added.

In interviews with SEARCHLIGHT, all four students expressed appreciation for the scholarships and promised to do their best in their academics.(AA)