Close to 100 Class 3 students at the West Terrace Primary School went home happier Friday, each with a brand new Samsung Galaxy 3 tablet in hand from The Aron & Christina Foundation, while the St James school will be outfitted with free Wi-Fi compliments of Columbus Business Solutions (CBS).

Aron Truss, co-founder of the Aron & Christina Foundation, noted that “Ensuring a high quality education for our students in Barbados remains a challenge for a variety of reasons, including funding constraints. We aim to contribute to better education for children in Barbados especially in the rural area. We believe that all children should be encouraged to learn and given the best opportunity to succeed.”

In thanking CBS for assisting with sourcing the tablets, The Andrew Stewart Charitable Foundation and its’ founder Mr. Andrew Stewart and other donors for generously donating the funds to purchase the tablets, Truss added that this initiative, was aimed to connect children to all possibilities through access to technology: “Tablet-based learning programmes will provide many of our children with an unlimited information resource that they would otherwise not have had.”

Last September the Aron & Christina Foundation presented 350 Samsung tablets to Class 3 students at several other Government Primary Schools.

Vice president of CBS, Mr. Jaggernauth Dass, said “Wi-Fi is essential to our children’s 21st Century education. Not having it sets up even greater roadblocks to an already challenging future. Primary and secondary schools now require “business-grade” wireless networks – those that are managed centrally and offer sophisticated features for scaling the network throughout school buildings, campuses, and districts. CBS cost-effectively delivers these features – and more – so schools can take homework, research and studying to the next level.”

Member of Parliament for St James South, Donville Inniss, said ” This donation is in keeping with the Governments desire to give our students access to the latest technology as a way of enhancing their education and we are very appreciative of the contribution by the Aron and Christina Foundation and the Andrew Stewart Foundation.”

He further added “We also want to express gratitude to CBS for providing free Wi-Fi to the school, which will not only benefit the students and staff but also the parents and the wider community.”