GTC scoring points with recycling programme

The Grassroot Tennis Club (GTC) is taking the lead, and has scored points for environmental protection and the education of children, while demonstrating to them a useful connection between sport, healthy lives and agriculture.{{more}}

Last Friday, at the GTC’s headquarters at Murray’s Road, in less than two hours, new seeds were planted in the minds of our young leaders in the making, as more than fifty pre-schoolers were engaged in a lesson on the recycling process.

Involved in the initial phase were the First Impression Preschool of Mesopotamia and the Salvation Army Preschool of Kingstown, who used empty boxes of the official drink of the GTC, PineHill, and empty cans of the tennis balls of choice at the GTC, PENN, in the recycling and seed-planting project, using corn, cauliflower, tomato and okra.

The children used the recycled PENN tennis ball cans to scoop up fertile earth from the mound at the GTC to place into the Pinehill juice boxes.

The other pre-schools participating in the first ever inter pre-schools Tennis Tournament during this week will have their turn at being part of the recycling and seed planting exercise.

Head man at GTC Grant Connell said that there are many lessons to be learnt by those fertile minds.

Connell said by them getting their hands dirty in topsoil, while planting seeds, would show them how to grow food in weeks to feed themselves and others.

Connell said that part of the plan is for the children attending the GTC to return weekly to monitor their planted seeds and observe the work of their little hands, as their efforts turn into food.

According to a philosophical Connell, “It’s one love for the children of the Grassroot Tennis Club. A top score in the game of life, as they place new value in the topsoil of their country.”