ANSA Coat­ings Lim­it­ed (ACL) sup­port­ed 108 stu­dents from La Hor­quet­ta South Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School on Tues­day, dur­ing its sec­ond an­nu­al Back-to-School Dri­ve, more than dou­ble the 51 stu­dents it helped last year.

The ini­tia­tive, fund­ed en­tire­ly through staff con­tri­bu­tions, pro­vid­ed sta­tionery, snacks, and eight ful­ly spon­sored book­list bags to chil­dren iden­ti­fied as most in need. The event al­so in­clud­ed games, face paint­ing and ac­tiv­i­ties aimed at en­gag­ing the stu­dents.

Gen­er­al man­ag­er Rhea Singh said the ini­tia­tive was in­tend­ed to pro­vide tan­gi­ble sup­port for lo­cal stu­dents and their fam­i­lies.

“Car­ing with pur­pose means be­ing in­ten­tion­al about the dif­fer­ence we make, show­ing up for our com­mu­ni­ty, in­vest­ing in our chil­dren, and cre­at­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for brighter fu­tures,” Singh said.

“These chil­dren are not just stu­dents in a near­by school; they are part of our ex­tend­ed ACL fam­i­ly.”

ACL man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Nicholas Mac Lean and Sec­tor HR man­ag­er Por­tia Dar­soo were al­so on hand, while the day was co­or­di­nat­ed by the com­pa­ny’s HR team, with sup­port from Rhythm Keep­ers.

The or­gan­is­ers said the dri­ve was part of a broad­er ef­fort by staff to ad­dress the chal­lenges faced by stu­dents and par­ents dur­ing a dif­fi­cult eco­nom­ic pe­ri­od. Stu­dents and teach­ers ex­pressed ap­pre­ci­a­tion for the con­tri­bu­tions, not­ing that such ini­tia­tives of­fered prac­ti­cal re­lief and en­cour­age­ment ahead of the school year.

ACL’s staff-led ap­proach en­sured that all do­na­tions came di­rect­ly from em­ploy­ees rather than cor­po­rate funds, re­flect­ing the com­pa­ny’s in­ter­nal cul­ture of com­mu­ni­ty in­volve­ment.

“The nice thing about this is that all of these do­na­tions were ac­tu­al­ly done by our em­ploy­ees,” said Mac Lean. “So this was not a com­pa­ny ini­tia­tive. Yes, the com­pa­ny has sup­port­ed, but this is ac­tu­al­ly our em­ploy­ees giv­ing back.”