Kupanda Sisters, WLF provide
literacy tablets to Guyana school By Nelson A. King
By Tangerine Clarke
New York-based non-profit,
Kupanda Sisters Inc., that
empowers women and children
through personal development
and literacy in underserved
communities, has partnered
with Sun Books of the World
Literacy Foundation (WLT) to
launch a pilot program to provide
literacy tablets to 20 students
at Sophia Primary School
in Georgetown, Guyana.
This collaborative initiative is
the brainchild of Founder, CEO
Kupanda Sisters, Cindy Charles
who has been working to provide
needed literacy programming to
students at the Sophia Primary
School since May 2019.
Charles, who was born in
rural, Parika East Bank Essequibo
of Guyana, said the students
were selected through
various criteria and have been
participating in weekly classes
to provide them quality literacy
resources and skills that would
equip and empower them to
transform their reality, unleash
their full potential and become
meaningful contributors to
their communities and the
world.
“I am just delighted to launch
this pilot program at Sophia
Primary School in Guyana. We
have a responsibility to ensure
that a proper education is an
intrinsic human right for every
child in every village and we at
Kupanda Sisters truly understand
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this responsibility,” said
Charles.
Charles’ organization is
committed to the community,
where there is strong belief in
the inherent power of a collaborative
village to prevail against
the condition of illiteracy, and
deliver value to many people
wanting to transform their
world through literacy.
Through the Sun Books initiative,
Kupanda Sisters will be
utilizing literacy tablets to make
a transformative change in offthe
grid communities with limited
or no access to electricity,
the internet or educational
resources, said the humanitarian,
who is planning a presentation
to Audrey Montrose-Sue,
principal of the school, who
assured that the initiative will
bring about a massive change
for the pupils.
The World Literacy Foundation
is a leading international
literacy organization working
in the United Kingdom, United
States, Australia, Latin America
and Africa, to deliver literacy
resources and skills.
For more information, go to
kupandasisters@gmail.com.
Cindy Charles, founder and
CEO Kupanda Sisters Inc.
Clarke, Rose push for renaming
of Fort Hamilton streets
Brooklyn Democratic Congresswoman,
Yvette D. Clarke
and Congressman Max Rose,
an Army combat veteran, on
Thursday called on the US Secretary
of Defense to rename
two streets at Fort Hamilton,
a US Army base in Brooklyn,
named after Confederate generals
Stonewall Jackson Drive
and General Lee Avenue.
Clarke and Rose’s push follows
comments this week by
the Secretary of the Army,
who said he is open to renaming
bases named for Confederate
leaders, as well as by President
Trump, who tweeted his
opposition.
“We write to urge you to
rename two streets located at
Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn that
are currently named after generals
of the Confederate States
of America, Stonewall Jackson
Drive and General Lee Avenue,”
write Rose and Clarke in a letter
to Secretary of Defense Mark
Esper.
“We swore an oath as public
officials to ‘support and defend
the Constitution of the United
States against all enemies, foreign
and domestic,’ and to ‘bear
true faith and allegiance to the
same,’” they add. “While we
were encouraged by news this
week that the Army might consider
renaming military installations
named after Confederate
generals, men who violated
that oath to our country, we are
similarly disturbed by recent
social media posts suggesting
that these names are part of a
‘Great American Heritage’ and
are ‘Hallowed Ground.’”
The congressional representatives
Shiloh, Antietam
and Gettysburg are hallowed
ground, “places where Americans
gave their lives to end the
practice of slavery in our country;
bases named after men
who sought to keep their fellow
men and women in bondage
are not.”
“We hope that you will act
swiftly to rename the streets
in Fort Hamilton and all places
named after Confederate figures,”
the letter says.
“It is impossible to disentangle
these men’s identities as
individuals from the cause they
rebelled against our nation to
defend,” it adds.
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