June 2015


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Read and run

This year’s UWI Games provided an avenue for regional UWI athletes to give back. For the first time in the history of the UWI Games at the St. Augustine Campus, an outreach initiative called the “U+We Read: Crossing Borders” was introduced; requiring that each campus make a book donation to one of four selected primary schools in the St. Augustine area.

Delegations of approximately ten students of the four campuses – St. Augustine, Mona, Cave Hill and the Open Campus, visited St. Benedict’s Boys’ RC Primary, Curepe Vedic Primary, Riverside Hindu School and Maracas SDA Primary schools for a book reading to the students and donation of the collected books. This is part of the campus-wide “Service Learning and Community Engagement: A New Agenda for Higher Education and Learning” initiative, commissioned by the Office of the Deputy Principal in 2009 geared towards training students to become civic-minded citizens.