The Linden Fund USA donated a photocopier to the Mackenzie Police Station to aid it in its execution of administrative duties.

LFU Chairman Dr Vincent Adams handed over the equipment to Assistant Superintendent Michael Sutton, in the presence of LFU Executive Secretary Linda Felix-Johnson and LFU member Floyd Alleyne at a brief ceremony. Inspector Williams and Linden Station Manage-ment Committee Chairman Lethem Wilson also attended the ceremony.

A record number of children and nurses benefited when the Linden Fund USA (LFU) conducted another medical outreach exercise, this time in partnership with Benjie’s Pharmacy under its new management.

The two-day exercise was held last Friday and Saturday at the Linden Hospital Com-plex (LHC) and the Linden Enterprise Network Business Centre respectively. “If it was only one doctor and she did so much, much less if y’all had a big team,” a parent at the paediatric clinic noted.

- attracts $1M Digicel sponsorship

A pilot has been launched for the Parent-Child Alternative Programme (P-CAP), which is aimed at helping students in Linden diagnosed with literacy problems and their parents.The programme, which evolved out of tutoring programmes for Grade Six pupils from selected schools in Linden and run by the Linden Fund USA during the August school break, will help shepherd a group of children preparing to sit the National Grade Six Assessment in 2012.

It has already attracted a $1.1 million sponsorship deal from Digicel Guyana .P-CAP, which is starting out with nine Grade Six students who have been diagnosed with serious literacy problems, will run for the remainder of the 2011-2012 academic year.

In an era when too many youths are preoccupied with the Gaza and Gully culture, there are thankfully still quite a few for whom attaining a good education and making good career choices are their major preoccupations.
At the age of twenty-four, Deon Anderson has already graduated from the Universidad De Camaguey in Cuba as a Chemical Engineer.
He is currently employed with the Guyana Water Incorporated. But that career was never Deon’s first choice.“Even just before writing CXC I wasn’t even certain of what I wanted to become, because to tell you the truth- from my heart, I love teaching, but sadly being a teacher, economically is not one of the best careers to have.”So Deon opted to put ‘teaching on the back burner” because of his conviction that he could never enjoy the sort of life he aspired to on a teacher’s wages.