Tablets for Sharon, Holy Innocents Primary students

The contribution of the Aron & Christina Foundation to rural schools in Barbados has been commended by MP for St Thomas Cynthia Forde.

Yesterday, she praised the work of the charity started by Aron and Christina Truss during the presentation of 69 Kindle Fire Tablets to class 3 students of Sharon and Holy Innocents Primary Schools in St Thomas.

“I want to congratulate the Truss’ for their vision and generosity of taking note of rural children,” she expressed.

“I ask God to give the Trusses the strength and the other benefactors working with them the funding to be able to continue to this project…There are not doing it for promotion, they are doing it because they see the need for education to have that infusion of technology in order to the meet the need of Barbadian children of the future.”

The MP therefore urged the students to use the tablets wisely and care for them.

“I want you to treat them as you would your textbooks that your parents have worked so hard to give you…Keep them safe, use them wisely so that you can expand your knowledge and your interest of what is happening in the world and enhance all of the knowledge that is necessary for you to go from one stage to the next,” she implored.
“We want that at the end of this school year to be able to hear from you, your teachers and parents about how you have benefited by using the tablets. It should not only serve you like a textbook would this year; it should serve you for life.”

Mr Truss revealed that 15 rural primary schools are now part of the tablet project and 700 of the devices will be presented to students this academic year, thanks to the Foundation’s generous donors.

“Christina and I started the charitable foundation in 2009 because we felt that there were many children in Barbados who are not as fortunate as our children. We were able to provide our children with such technology and we saw the benefits they received both in education and playing games…. Yes, the tablets are to be used for your education, but we know you will play games, conduct searches, and that is all fine because you are learning how to use technology. There are going to be very few goods in the future that will be able to do without a good working knowledge of technology”.

Class 3 students are selected because the Aron & Christina Foundation believes that they are old enough to handle the responsibility of taking care of the tablet and will have it to assist them with the two years of preparations for the Common Entrance Exam.
(TL)