Mashabo Primary School, a school located in the Indigenous Mashabo Village along the Essequibo Coast, recently received thirty tablets and five laptops from the Guyana-Jamaica Friendship Association (GJFA), an organization that adopted the school almost seven years ago.
According to Headmaster Modiram Beepat, these devices have arrived in the nick of time for the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations slated for August 4th and 5th, which his school’s fifteen Sixth Graders are currently preparing to write. “For this one month they’ll be using the tablets at school. We don’t want them to take it home because it affects them from revising. But, come September, we will give the new Grade Six pupils the tablets to take home for a year. We will ask the parents to sign an agreement form saying that they will be responsible for it”, the headmaster said.