It was an ex­cit­ing mo­ment for stu­dents of the Ma­yaro-Guayagua­yare Com­mu­ni­ty School at Gran La­goon on Mon­day when South African High Com­mis­sion­er Mau­reen Modis­elle re­turned to the vil­lage to present them with new school uni­forms. The high com­mis­sion­er first in­ter­act­ed with the school last year when she at­tend­ed an Eman­ci­pa­tion cel­e­bra­tion host­ed by the school in the tiny Ma­yaro vil­lage of Mafek­ing.

The vis­it in­ter­est­ed Modis­elle since she grew-up in a vil­lage al­so called Mafek­ing in South Africa. Over the Christ­mas sea­son the en­voy vis­it­ed the Ma­yaro-Guayagua­yare Com­mu­ni­ty School and spent sev­er­al hours with the chil­dren as well as its staff head­ed by Fan­ta Mu­to­ta.

Dur­ing that vis­it all 21 stu­dents of the school were pre­sent­ed with gifts of fruits and clothes by the high com­mis­sion­er. She al­so pre­sent­ed each stu­dent with two CDs de­tail­ing the his­to­ry of South Africa. On Mon­day, High Com­mis­sion­er Modis­elle ac­com­pa­nied by Thomas Mu­dau, Coun­sel­lor at the South African High Com­mis­sion re­turned to Mafek­ing to make good on a promise of adopt­ing the school. They al­so pre­sent­ed stu­dents with school uni­forms.

Modis­elle al­so hint­ed at mak­ing arrange­ments for ex­change vis­its be­tween stu­dents of the Ma­yaro-Guayagua­yare Com­mu­ni­ty School and stu­dents in South Africa.