As the new aca­d­e­m­ic school year came around, char­i­ties and or­gan­i­sa­tions were busy with book dri­ves, en­sur­ing that tough eco­nom­ic times do not im­pact dis­ad­van­taged stu­dents.

Ed­u­ca­tion com­pa­ny WEPALA took its ini­tia­tive a bit fur­ther by sourc­ing dig­i­tal copies of books for stu­dents. They ap­plied for $10,000 from the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion to help fund the ini­tia­tive to sup­ply books, and school sup­plies to stu­dents in need.

With its mantra: “We build amaz­ing tech­nol­o­gy so­lu­tions,” WEPALA used in­no­v­a­tive dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy to build mo­men­tum for the 2019 book dri­ve themed “I Will Suc­ceed” by sourc­ing We-book copies of text­books that were not found in stores.

Pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary school teach­ers rec­om­mend­ed stu­dents they be­lieve would ben­e­fit from the on­line book dri­ve.

WEPALA, to­geth­er with the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion, pre­sent­ed the items to 30 stu­dents from the sev­en schools—As­cen­sion An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School, Nel­son Street Boys RC School, St Julien Pres­by­ter­ian School, Mal­ick Girls RC School, Bish­ops Anstey (East) High School, St George’s Col­lege and Moru­ga Sec­ondary School, at the Dig­i­cel Hos­pi­tal­i­ty suite in Port-of-Spain.

Com­mu­ni­ties across T&T con­tin­ue to ac­cess the Com­mu­ni­ty En­gage­ment $10,000 grant from Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion to com­plete small-scale projects. The small grant con­tin­ues to make a big im­pact in com­mu­ni­ties through­out T&T.