West Terrace riding with Pinelands Creative Workshop

Pinelands Creative Workshop over the weekend donated three bicycles to the West Terrace Primary School to assist them with their project of teaching their young pupils how to ride a bicycle.

In the brief handover ceremony at Pinelands Creative Workshop headquarters, physical education teacher Dwayne Phillips said that he reached out to Stephen ‘Iambo’ Grant, supervisor of the Pinelands Creative Workshop Bike Project, as he realised that many pupils did not know how to ride a bicycle nor did they have the means to do so.

“The initiative is to get students within the Infants Department of the West Terrace Primary School to learn how to ride a bicycle.

I know across primary schools that students between the ages of 5-9 years-old are unable to ride a bicycle and or have not been afforded the opportunity due to the current Covid-19 climate that we are in now to afford to purchase a bicycle.

I decided to reach out to Pinelands Creative Workshop to request a donation of bicycles so that I can start this programme to teach the students how to ride at the school,” he said.

Grant said that support from the organisation to assist Phillips was seen as a good way to help the children as he too realised that many children want to learn to ride a bicycle but their parents might be unable to purchase one for them.

Thus, Pinelands Creative Workshop decided to assist with a donation of three bikes valued at $450.00.

“We donated today two 18-inch bicycles and one 16-inch unisex bicycle to West Terrace Primary School.

The reason why we accepted their request to sponsor is because PCW it about helping and developing children.

We at Pinelands Creative Workshop know that there are a lot of children whose parents cannot afford bicycles, therefore we wanted to assist the initiative that Mr. Phillips is seeking to do to encourage the students at his school to ride as it is a good initiative for keeping fit, a way for them to have fun and build the confidence and self-esteem in children, and at the same time it’s environmentally friendly and we hope that other schools follow suit,” he said.

Phillips commended Pinelands Creative Workshop for the excellent work that they are doing with the Bicycle Project and was hopeful that other sponsors would come on board so that he could expand the project at West Terrace Primary School.

“I believe other sponsors would come forward to donate to this initiative. But, I think that it is an excellent initiative that Pinelands Creative Workshop has started with the bicycle project as they have good brand bicycles where individuals within different communities can come get a bicycle and teach students how to ride,” he said. (Write Right PR Services)