-to complement President’s education driveMinister of Social Cohesion, Amna Ally, and First Lady, Sandra Granger,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, yesterday distributed footwear to more than 1000 students from Region Nine (Upper Essequibo-Upper Takutu) schools,Wholesale Jerseys, to complement President David Granger’s “Boats, Buses and Bicycles” initiative aimed at ensuring that all the nation’s children can attend school.Students queue-up to receive their pair of ‘shoes that grow’ from First Lady, Mrs Sandra Granger and other assistants who travelled to Region Nine to distribute them today.The project which is spearheaded by Mrs. Granger in collaboration with Ernie Ross, Guyana’s Consul General in Trinidad and Tobago under the ‘Rethink Initiative – Kind Soles Project’, started after he saw a photograph in a magazine depicting children in the hinterland areas going to school bare feet. The project targets 30,Jerseys From China,000 hinterland students.The initial tranche of the donation was dubbed “the shoes that grow” as the shoes were expandable and were estimated to last each child about five years. So far, students in Region One (Barima-Waini), Region Nine and those residing at the Amerindian Hostel in Georgetown have benefited from this gift.Ministry Ally, in presenting the shoes to the students of the Arapaima Primary, Arapaima Secondary, Culvert City Nursery and the St. Ignatius Secondary School dormitory,Cheap Jerseys 2018, said that the President has a “great passion” for education and aspires to see every child in school.“Our government has at the helm, a man who loves education; a man who wants you and the children of the coastland to have an education and equal opportunities. Our President promised a good life and we are doing [these] things to ensure that you all have a good life,” Minister Ally said.She also told the students that the gift of shoes should further motivate them to improveMr. Carl Parker, Regional Executive Officer, Minister of Social Cohesion, Ms. Amna Ally, First Lady, Mrs. Sandra Granger, a teacher from the region and Ms. Amanda Fernandes, stand with students from Culvert City Nursery School who proudly display their gift bags of shoes.their attendance and performance at school.Mrs. Granger said that the partnership would not have come to fruition had it not been for the efforts of Mr Ross and Caribbean Airlines, which has been bringing the shoes to Guyana free of cost. She noted that the initiative caters particularly to students in the hinterland areas, since they are the most vulnerable.?‘We need shoes’Headmistress of the Arapaima Primary School, Mary Torres, praised the project. It may seem small and inconsequential to many, it is a big boon to the students, their families and the entire region. The Headmistress said 200 of the 345 students at her school are in dire need of the shoes, since their families are challenged in many ways.”It is very exciting. These shoes are going to be very beneficial to them because most of these students come from single parent homes, broken homes and even sibling homes. Right now, everyone is rushing to Marudi to work in the goldfields and these children are left on their own.Some of them, when they?come to school, you as a teacher, when you see how they are attired, you want to help them but you can only do so much. This is a very good start,” Mrs. Torres said.Over at the Arapaima Nursery School, one of the students, upon seeing the shoes, shouted, “We need shoes; I hate these ugly shoes I have on”, when Minister Ally announced that she had arrived with footwear for them.Minister Amna Ally waits patiently as this lad from the Arapaima Primary School, Region Nine looks curiously at his brand new pair of shoes as he collects it from her.Regional Executive Officer, Carl Parker,Wholesale Jerseys Cheap, also welcomed the initiative, noting that it will do well for the students in their pursuit of education.“I hope that you will cherish this and it will help you in your studies. Use this to motivate yourselves. We hope that you will use this opportunity to be present in school more often,” he told the students.Last month, some of the schools who benefited from today’s exercise also received a number of bicyles under the ‘Three Bs’ programme.New projectThe First Lady announced another partnership with Ross, titled “Project Happiness”, which seeks to train teachers to interact,Cheap Jerseys, identify and treat depressive behaviours, counsel and motivate students. Mrs Granger said that the project is thought to be critical to helping treat troubled children and is another step government is taking to reduce the incidence of sui