Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club- B. Butcher TF
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The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS (RHTYSC, MS) is perhaps the most vibrant and productive youth and sports organization in Guyana. Over the last thirty years, the RHTYSC, MS has touched and changed the lives of tens of thousands through our numerous activities. Every year it undertakes a record 700 activities under the sub-headings of Sports, Coaching, Awards, Education, Anti-Suicide, Charity, Religions, Anti-Crime, Community Development, Youth Development, Social Development, and Anti-Drugs. Our outstanding work has been recognized locally, regionally in the Caribbean and on the international stage. Most recently, RHTYSC, MS has been focused on providing assistance to the less fortunate families in Berbice struggling even more due to the Coronavirus pandemic. To date, RHTYSC, MS has provided over 1200 food hampers to families, which included cleaning detergents. The total cost of the project to date is approximately five millions Guyana dollars. RHTYSC, MS has been able to carry out this project with support from our members and donors. Your support would enable us to continue our service to our township, the county of Berbice and Guyana. We serve all despite their race, creed, religion, or gender. Please be reassured that all your donations would be used for the intended purpose. Regular reports would be available upon request.
Funds donated to the RHTYSC, MS would be used for the following:
1. Distribution of food hampers and cleaning detergents to less fortunate families, the elderly, and single parents’ households in Berbice, Guyana.
2. Provide hundreds of old age pensioners on a monthly basis, with breakfast as they wait to receive their Government pension.
3. Weekly “Feeding the Poor” program, which provides warm meals to less fortunate students attending school.
4. Assist less fortunate students in school with bicycles to get to school, school uniforms, school bags, and educational materials in effort to get them to stay in school and obtain their educational credentials.
5. To assist Cricket Clubs across Berbice with cricket balls, cricket gears, stumps, scorebooks, trophies, and medals in effort to develop themselves.
6. To assist schools and sports club in with educational and sporting equipment.
7. To undertake restoration work at the RHTYSC, MS Head Office at the Area ‘H’ Ground in an effort to provide better service to the general public.
8. To provide funding for our “Say No to Drugs, Suicide and Yes to Education,” sports program. Funds would be used to publish youth booklets, magazines, leaflets along with hosting of seminars etc.
9. To make repairs and improvements to the Children Playfield, constructed by the RHTYSC, MS in 2017.
10. Host the annual RHTYSC Cricket Academy, Grade 6 Summer Camp among others.
11. Host a month long list of activities to mark the RHTYSC, MS 30th anniversary in September, 2020.
Basil F. Butcher, Snr. Memorial Trust Fund (TF)
The late Basil Fitzherbert Butcher would always be remembered as one of the finest batsmen produced by Guyana and the West Indies. Born on September 3, 1933 in the legendary cricketing village of Port Mourant. Butcher was the fourth Berbician to play for the West Indies and the 103rd overall to wear the famous maroon test cap. He scored 3104 runs in 44 test matches with an average of 43.1 with seven centuries and 15 half centuries. He was inducted into the Berbice Cricket Board Hall of Fame and is also a member of the Berbice All Time Cricket Eleven. He was awarded a National Award by the Government of Guyana, the Golden Arrowhead of Achievement (AA), named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1970, and the BCB Tribute to Hero Award. He was also awarded the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS highest award, the Dolphin Award of Excellence.
Basil Butcher, who passed away on December 16, 2019 was a close friend of Guyana’s leading youth and sports club, the RHTYSC, MS. For over ten years he financed the Basil Butcher Cricket Trust Fund annually, under which dozens of cricketers and clubs received cricket gears and funds. Among the cricketers who received gears from the Basil Butcher Cricket Trust Fund is the current West Indies cricketer, Shimron Hetmeyer. With the blessing and support of the Butcher family, the RHTYSC, MS will continue to host the Trust Fund. The next presentation is slated for September 3, 2020, which would have been his 87th birthday.
We hereby invite cricket lovers and fans of the legend to join us in this quest to honor his memory by making a donation to this Go Fund Me Account. Donations would be used for the following:
1. Assist less fortunate under 17 cricketers in Berbice and Linden with cricket gears.
2. Assist lower rank clubs with cricket gears including balls, bats, batting pads, wicket keeping gloves, stumps, and score books. Clubs in Linden will also benefit.
3. Assist less fortunate school children with cycles to go to school and also school bags.
4. Host coaching sessions with highly trained coaches for promising young cricketers.
5. Host an inter village cricket tournament, with the winner carrying home the Basil Butcher Tribute Trophy.
6. Unveiling a large tribute banner of Basil Butcher in the pavilion of his home club, Port Mourant.
Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS (RHTYSC, MS)
Location: Area ‘H’ Ground Rose Hall Town, Guyana
Founded: September, 1990
Founder: Three times Guyana and Commonwealth Youth Service awardee, the St. Francis Community Developers formerly the St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Youth Club.
Executive Committee:
President- Keith Foster
Vice President- Mark Papannah
Secretary/CEO- Hilbert Foster, MS
Asst Secretary/CEO- Simon Naidu
Treasurer- Shemaine Campbelle
Organising Secretary- Ravindranauth Kissoonlall
Asst Organising Secretary- Keith Hicks
Club Captain- Eon Hooper
Committee Members- Sohan Harry, Tyrone Pottaya, Terry
Pike, Elizabeth Brush, Joel Pike.
Contact us: 011-592-337-4562 or 011-592-337-4443
011- [phone redacted] Simon Naidu
011-592 [phone redacted] Mark Papannah
Awards:
1. The St. Francis Community Developers is the only club in the world to have ever receive three Commonwealth Youth Service Awards.
2. The RHTYSC, MS is the only youth and sports club in the history of Guyana to have ever receive a national award from the Government of Guyana.
3. Received the Guyana Cricket Club of the Year Award five times- 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011 and 2016.
4. Received the Berbice Cricket Club of the Year Award seven times.
5. Received awards from the Rotary International and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Major Achievements 1990-2020:
1. The RHTYSC, MS has produced to date a total of seventeen national senior players in both the male and female divisions. Additionally, we have also produced sixty Guyana Cricketers at all levels and over one hundred for Berbice.
2. Only Club in Guyana to have a female cricket team.
3. Since 1992, the RHTYSC has won over ninety cricket tournaments at the Under 13, Under 15, Under 17, Under 19, Under 23, Female, Intermediate, Second Division, First Division, First Division and Interzone Levels.
4. Assad Fudadin, Royston Crandon, Kevin Sinclair, Kevlon Anderson, Esuan Crandon, Shemaine Campbelle, Sheneta Grimmond, Shabika Gajnabi, and Erva Giddings are the players from the RHTYSC, MS who have played for the West Indies at different levels.
5. Spearheaded the restoration of the Lower Corentyne Secondary School in 1991/92 at the cost of $5M.
6. Led the complete transformation of the Area ‘H’ Ground from swampland into a modern sports venue at the cost of over $25M.
7. Constructed a Children Playfield for children as part of the 175th anniversary of the Rose Hall Village at the cost of $1.5M.
8. Constructed a Charity Kitchen at the Area ‘H’ Ground to prepare meals for the less fortunate.
9. Raised funds to complete a $1M all weather court in 1999 at the Area ‘H’ Ground.
10. Over the last thirty years has shared out over $400M worth of food items, clothing, sport, gears, educational materials, footwear, cycles, school bags, wheelchairs, hygiene kits among others under our charity program.
11. Provided street signs, constructed small bridges, dust bins, and scoreboards for the township.
12. Has published over fifty publications- annual review magazines, booklets, souvenirs, posters etc.
About Rose Hall Town:
Rose Hall Town is the smallest town in Guyana, South America. It is located in the ancient county of Berbice and has a population of around 20,000 people. Over the last decade, the township has seen a lot of development and is now a major business sector. Sadly, however these developments only benefit about twenty percentage of the township’s population and the remainder live at the minimum level.
Problems affecting Rose Hall Town:
1.High unemployment rate among youths.
2.High School drop out rate of youths from secondary school.
3. Alarming drug abuse rate among youths.
4. Huge abuse rate of Alcohol.
5.Large pool of children growing up in single parent household- mostly with no father.
6.Lack of positive role model for youths to emulate.
7. Very dirty and unkempt environment.
Funds donated to the RHTYSC, MS would be used for the following:
1. Distribution of food hampers and cleaning detergents to less fortunate families, the elderly, and single parents’ households in Berbice, Guyana.
2. Provide hundreds of old age pensioners on a monthly basis, with breakfast as they wait to receive their Government pension.
3. Weekly “Feeding the Poor” program, which provides warm meals to less fortunate students attending school.
4. Assist less fortunate students in school with bicycles to get to school, school uniforms, school bags, and educational materials in effort to get them to stay in school and obtain their educational credentials.
5. To assist Cricket Clubs across Berbice with cricket balls, cricket gears, stumps, scorebooks, trophies, and medals in effort to develop themselves.
6. To assist schools and sports club in with educational and sporting equipment.
7. To undertake restoration work at the RHTYSC, MS Head Office at the Area ‘H’ Ground in an effort to provide better service to the general public.
8. To provide funding for our “Say No to Drugs, Suicide and Yes to Education,” sports program. Funds would be used to publish youth booklets, magazines, leaflets along with hosting of seminars etc.
9. To make repairs and improvements to the Children Playfield, constructed by the RHTYSC, MS in 2017.
10. Host the annual RHTYSC Cricket Academy, Grade 6 Summer Camp among others.
11. Host a month long list of activities to mark the RHTYSC, MS 30th anniversary in September, 2020.
Basil F. Butcher, Snr. Memorial Trust Fund (TF)
The late Basil Fitzherbert Butcher would always be remembered as one of the finest batsmen produced by Guyana and the West Indies. Born on September 3, 1933 in the legendary cricketing village of Port Mourant. Butcher was the fourth Berbician to play for the West Indies and the 103rd overall to wear the famous maroon test cap. He scored 3104 runs in 44 test matches with an average of 43.1 with seven centuries and 15 half centuries. He was inducted into the Berbice Cricket Board Hall of Fame and is also a member of the Berbice All Time Cricket Eleven. He was awarded a National Award by the Government of Guyana, the Golden Arrowhead of Achievement (AA), named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1970, and the BCB Tribute to Hero Award. He was also awarded the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS highest award, the Dolphin Award of Excellence.
Basil Butcher, who passed away on December 16, 2019 was a close friend of Guyana’s leading youth and sports club, the RHTYSC, MS. For over ten years he financed the Basil Butcher Cricket Trust Fund annually, under which dozens of cricketers and clubs received cricket gears and funds. Among the cricketers who received gears from the Basil Butcher Cricket Trust Fund is the current West Indies cricketer, Shimron Hetmeyer. With the blessing and support of the Butcher family, the RHTYSC, MS will continue to host the Trust Fund. The next presentation is slated for September 3, 2020, which would have been his 87th birthday.
We hereby invite cricket lovers and fans of the legend to join us in this quest to honor his memory by making a donation to this Go Fund Me Account. Donations would be used for the following:
1. Assist less fortunate under 17 cricketers in Berbice and Linden with cricket gears.
2. Assist lower rank clubs with cricket gears including balls, bats, batting pads, wicket keeping gloves, stumps, and score books. Clubs in Linden will also benefit.
3. Assist less fortunate school children with cycles to go to school and also school bags.
4. Host coaching sessions with highly trained coaches for promising young cricketers.
5. Host an inter village cricket tournament, with the winner carrying home the Basil Butcher Tribute Trophy.
6. Unveiling a large tribute banner of Basil Butcher in the pavilion of his home club, Port Mourant.
Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS (RHTYSC, MS)
Location: Area ‘H’ Ground Rose Hall Town, Guyana
Founded: September, 1990
Founder: Three times Guyana and Commonwealth Youth Service awardee, the St. Francis Community Developers formerly the St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Youth Club.
Executive Committee:
President- Keith Foster
Vice President- Mark Papannah
Secretary/CEO- Hilbert Foster, MS
Asst Secretary/CEO- Simon Naidu
Treasurer- Shemaine Campbelle
Organising Secretary- Ravindranauth Kissoonlall
Asst Organising Secretary- Keith Hicks
Club Captain- Eon Hooper
Committee Members- Sohan Harry, Tyrone Pottaya, Terry
Pike, Elizabeth Brush, Joel Pike.
Contact us: 011-592-337-4562 or 011-592-337-4443
011- [phone redacted] Simon Naidu
011-592 [phone redacted] Mark Papannah
Awards:
1. The St. Francis Community Developers is the only club in the world to have ever receive three Commonwealth Youth Service Awards.
2. The RHTYSC, MS is the only youth and sports club in the history of Guyana to have ever receive a national award from the Government of Guyana.
3. Received the Guyana Cricket Club of the Year Award five times- 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011 and 2016.
4. Received the Berbice Cricket Club of the Year Award seven times.
5. Received awards from the Rotary International and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Major Achievements 1990-2020:
1. The RHTYSC, MS has produced to date a total of seventeen national senior players in both the male and female divisions. Additionally, we have also produced sixty Guyana Cricketers at all levels and over one hundred for Berbice.
2. Only Club in Guyana to have a female cricket team.
3. Since 1992, the RHTYSC has won over ninety cricket tournaments at the Under 13, Under 15, Under 17, Under 19, Under 23, Female, Intermediate, Second Division, First Division, First Division and Interzone Levels.
4. Assad Fudadin, Royston Crandon, Kevin Sinclair, Kevlon Anderson, Esuan Crandon, Shemaine Campbelle, Sheneta Grimmond, Shabika Gajnabi, and Erva Giddings are the players from the RHTYSC, MS who have played for the West Indies at different levels.
5. Spearheaded the restoration of the Lower Corentyne Secondary School in 1991/92 at the cost of $5M.
6. Led the complete transformation of the Area ‘H’ Ground from swampland into a modern sports venue at the cost of over $25M.
7. Constructed a Children Playfield for children as part of the 175th anniversary of the Rose Hall Village at the cost of $1.5M.
8. Constructed a Charity Kitchen at the Area ‘H’ Ground to prepare meals for the less fortunate.
9. Raised funds to complete a $1M all weather court in 1999 at the Area ‘H’ Ground.
10. Over the last thirty years has shared out over $400M worth of food items, clothing, sport, gears, educational materials, footwear, cycles, school bags, wheelchairs, hygiene kits among others under our charity program.
11. Provided street signs, constructed small bridges, dust bins, and scoreboards for the township.
12. Has published over fifty publications- annual review magazines, booklets, souvenirs, posters etc.
About Rose Hall Town:
Rose Hall Town is the smallest town in Guyana, South America. It is located in the ancient county of Berbice and has a population of around 20,000 people. Over the last decade, the township has seen a lot of development and is now a major business sector. Sadly, however these developments only benefit about twenty percentage of the township’s population and the remainder live at the minimum level.
Problems affecting Rose Hall Town:
1.High unemployment rate among youths.
2.High School drop out rate of youths from secondary school.
3. Alarming drug abuse rate among youths.
4. Huge abuse rate of Alcohol.
5.Large pool of children growing up in single parent household- mostly with no father.
6.Lack of positive role model for youths to emulate.
7. Very dirty and unkempt environment.
Organizer
Blossom Butcher-Sumner
Organizer
Bowie, MD
