College students at Hayes Main and Toddler College in Clarendon will now have a better time attending to courses and faculty occasions, because of a serious donation from Jamaican-born, South Florida-based entrepreneur Jeane Russell.
In April, Russell handed over a 2018 Toyota Hiace bus to her former college — the results of a two-year fundraising effort by her workforce in the US. The automobile is the primary of its variety for the establishment, which serves greater than 500 college students.
“This undertaking has been within the works for fairly a while. With planning, fundraising and overcoming hurdles, delivery the bus wasn’t straightforward however each impediment was value it. It means quite a bit to the youngsters and the varsity,” Russell instructed Observer On-line.
Appearing vice principal Georgia Bissoon stated the varsity beforehand had no technique of transport for college kids, making subject journeys and off-site occasions logistically difficult and expensive. “The acquisition of this bus means quite a bit for the scholars, who will profit drastically when the necessity arises for them to characterize their college at occasions,” she stated.
The donation continues Russell’s decades-long philanthropic relationship with Hayes Main and Toddler. Since 1999, she has contributed academic supplies, laptops, tablets, a fridge, and launched a breakfast program for college kids in want. In 2022, the varsity acknowledged her generosity with a Particular Award.
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Russell, now president and CEO of Carib Medical Heart in South Florida, was born in Hayes and attended the varsity within the Nineteen Eighties. On the time, she usually walked as much as six miles to attend courses — an expertise that has stayed together with her since migrating to the US greater than 40 years in the past.
“I’m grateful. Grateful to everybody who made at the present time potential,” she wrote on Instagram. “I pay tribute to the principal, academics, and employees. It’s been a long-awaited event. Thanks for supporting this deserving trigger. My ceaselessly completely satisfied place: Hayes Main and Toddler College.”
