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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
NASSAU, The Bahamas – The University of the West Indies (UWI) will launch its UWI Global Giving Week on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at a reception at 6:30 p.m. at the Paul Farquharson Conference Centre, Police Headquarters.
All alumni, students and friends of UWI in The Bahamas are invited to attend and support this Caribbean-wide appeal. Sir George Alleyne, Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, will deliver the keynote address.
UWI Global Giving Week has emerged in the wake of the economic challenges of the supporting governments of the Caribbean, and the University appeals to its beneficiaries, graduates, students and the entire Caribbean community to support this campaign for financial sustainability and to continue to provide affordable education of the highest quality, here in the Caribbean to advance the development of the region.
The annual fund-raising campaign, championed by Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of the UWI, embraces the theme: “Emancipate, Educate, Donate.”
In The Bahamas, UWI offers affordable undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in Medicine a the UWI School of Clinical Medicine and Research, degree courses at the Centre for Hotel and Tourism Management and a wide range of certificate, diploma and undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses at the Open Campus.
Today UWI is the largest, most long-standing higher education provider in the Commonwealth Caribbean with three campuses in Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad, and an Open Campus, primarily a virtual site for the non-campus territories. The UWI serves 18 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean, with collaborative links to 160 universities globally.
At its 60th anniversary in 2008, the University reported over 85,000 graduates; it has produced leaders in every sphere of Caribbean development, inclusive of 18 Caribbean heads of government; 83 Rhodes Scholars; and 2 Nobel Prize recipients.
In the Caribbean the first week of August is celebrated in recognition of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, granting freedom to slaves of African descent. In this spirit of liberation, the Bahamian alumni of the University of the West Indies launch this annual global fundraising initiative: UWI Global Giving Week, August 1 to 7.
The University campuses in Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados and some of the UWI Open Campus countries in the Caribbean -- Belize, St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda have already launched the appeal.
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