The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has agreed to provide bursary awards to children of its members. Over the past years, the union has been awarding the best performing children of GAWU’S members in the National Grade Six Examinations.
Two separate activities are to be held at the union’s offices in Georgetown and Berbice on August 22, 2019, and August 24, 2019, respectively whereby the monetary awards to the successful students in the presence of their parents would be handed out.
In his message to the students at the Demerara ceremony in Georgetown, the President of GAWU, Cde Komal Chand congratulated the students on their achievements while recognizing the role of their respective teachers. He also congratulated their parents whose support and encouragement he stressed must have greatly assisted the students. He advised the students, noting the importance of education to continue to acquire higher learning as they enter secondary school in the new school term in September. He also told the students that GAWU is pleased and proud to award the bursaries as the Union recognizes their success at the National Grade Six examinations and wish to encourage them to continue to diligently pursue their studies for greater attainments. Comrade Harvey Tambron, Vice President of GAWU, who will speak at the Berbice Awards Ceremony is expected to express similar sentiments.
Altogether twenty (20) bursaries have been approved of which three (3) are provided by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union Co-operative Credit Union Society Limited.
