COMPUTITLE Limited showed its community support this past weekend by sponsoring Thelma Gibson Primary School students and teachers to attend the IAAF/BTC World Relays Bahamas 2015.
The company purchased 25 youth tickets and five adult tickets for the school to send lucky students and teachers to attend the exciting international sporting event May 2-3 at the Thomas A Robinson Stadium.
The tickets were presented during an assembly at the school and attended by Computitle Limited’s accountant Loretta Johnson and office manager Michelle Knowles.
“Last year we provided tickets for students and teachers from Yellow Elder Primary School to attend the inaugural relays, and this year we decided to provide the same opportunity for another school,” said Johnson.
“We believe that seeing an event of this magnitude, and athletes of this calibre, might serve to inspire some of these young Bahamians to greatness, and give them the impetus to improve their own discipline,” she said.
Knowles felt that community support of any kind is important. “Anything that can be done to provide positive influences on our children should be given serious thought, and we felt that this would very definitely provide that positive influence.”
Said Lionel Haven, chief of Computitle who also served as the managing director of the Local Organising Committe: “Our company wants to make a difference, and although we are not often able to perform this support in the community, it gives us a great feeling when we do. The looks of the faces of the kids was priceless, and we can well imagine how excited the event would make them. Who knows, maybe in a few short years we could be watching an athlete who attended this school and was inspired by this event.”
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