WILLEMSTAD - The new school year will be a brand-new experience for the pupils of the A.E. Goilo School as they receive containers full of furniture, educational materials and schoolbooks shipped from the Irene school in Netherlands to them.
The kids, mostly from the nearby and surrounding neighborhoods, will enjoy a totally different school environment that will open their appetite for knowledge and also be a great encouragement for enthusiastic teachers to educate their pupils.
Refineria di Kòrsou (RdK) and CIBC FirstCaribbean collaborated with Stichting Help de Schoolkinderen van Curaçao, to ship the materials. There was much enthusiasm and awe at the arrival and unloading of the first of three containers that are being shipped with furniture, educational material and books in optima forma, but not in use anymore at Irene School in the Netherlands.
Stichting Help de Schoolkinderen van Curaçao intervened to get goods and provide for the shipping arrangements of them to Curaçao. CIBC FirstCaribbean and RdK supported Stichting Help de Schoolkinderen van Curaçao in this effort, by sponsoring transportation, highlighting their commitment to education and the intellectual and creative development of the youth in Curaçao.
Mrs. Marie-Denise Hoyer, the principle of the Goilo School said: “The new furniture, educational equipment and books obtained truly adds to our ambition to have a safe, enjoyable and pleasant school, where our kids can develop their maximum potential and that our teachers will work with enthusiasm.”
She added: “We look forward for the arrival of the kids to school the next schoolyear and find their classrooms with many new provisions they barely had before. We thank Stichting Help de Schoolkinderen van Curaçao, Irene School in the Netherlands, RdK and CIBC FirstCaribbean for each of their share of this marvelous metamorphose.”