Queen’s College (QC) recently received over $2 million in donations from four alumni chapters to facilitate various activities leading up to the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations.
The United Kingdom chapter donated about $788,000 to facilitate the rehabilitation of the school’s Information Technology laboratory, where several pieces of equipment and two air conditioning units were damaged in recent years. The donation from this chapter also went to the rehabilitation of the sick bay and towards the purchase of furniture for the counsellor’s office.
The Toronto Alumni chapter donated $251,000 on short notice for the repair and reconfiguration of 39 computers in the school’s Information Technology lab. The head of department expressed her gratitude to the Toronto and UK chapters for their donations, while noting that it will benefit the students that are set to write the Electronic Document Preparation and Management in May.