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Huawei Technologies T&T has been supporting education initiatives in the country for years.


However, the company has taken it a step further with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Education over the Adopt-A-School Programme.


Alicia Boucher has more in this report.
Transcript
00:00Huawei was one of the corporate entities that came on board early with the Adopt-a-School
00:04initiative, which began in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as a means of ensuring that students
00:11got the electronic devices needed for online learning. The program has since evolved and
00:18the Ministry of Education has introduced it formally as part of its policy. Huawei has
00:23signed on to that. Education Minister Dr. Nyan Gatsby-Dawley explains the reason for
00:29the formalization.
00:30DR. NYAN GATSBY-DAWLEY, Education Minister, U.S. Department of Education and Human Services
00:31Administration
00:32So that even when the personalities you see before you now change, and we will, the system
00:37will go on. And why is that important? Because when we speak about our schools and equity
00:43and educational opportunity, we speak about the fact that some schools get a lot of support
00:50and some schools do not.
00:53According to the minister, the spinoff from that is glaring via the results, as generally
00:58those with perform better than those without, and the focus is on the latter.
01:05Because we need to arrest that situation in those schools in terms of their performance
01:11and also their perception that they are also important, the students who go to those schools,
01:18that they are also important. And nothing speaks to students more than action.
01:23Chief Executive Officer of Huawei Technologies TNT Bruce Yu attributes his success to his
01:29education. He says three decades ago, the economic situation in China was very bad,
01:35and his mom was born in the 1960s during a period they referred to as the starving years.
01:42Because we don't have food even to eat. But my mom even never finished the secondary school.
01:49So even like this, my mom is, she always, always, always hesitated to buy everything
01:57for herself, but she's always very generous to my education. She encourages me to read,
02:04to do the things in the right way, and also the most important, to be a very well-educated
02:10man in the society.
02:13According to the Huawei CEO, the vision of many who focused on education at that time
02:18was to raise China out of poverty. The signing, he says, signals Huawei's commitment to empowering
02:25educators and students with advanced digital education tools. While Adopter School Coordinator
02:31Ian Harewood is thankful for those who have bought into the initiative, he notes there
02:36is room for more support.
02:39We also want to encourage and admonish citizens, NGOs, faith-based organizations, and other
02:46corporate Trinidad organizations to stand up and be counted, because the reality is
02:54education is good business.
02:56The Education Ministry is thanking Huawei for its support. Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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