Osadebay Bullard
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As
a part of its educational development thrust, the Nassau Bahamas Alumnae
Chapter (NBAC) of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. donated about 400 school
bags filled with supplies to local schools within the past month. The items
were collected during the Sorority’s Southern Regional Conference in July 2014,
and was a part of the Southern Region’s International Awareness and Involvement
efforts.
Most
recently, the school supplies were presented to students and faculty at
Palmdale Primary, SC McPherson, St Cecilia’s School, Queens College and the
Englerston West Urban Renewal Centre. Each school package was filled with such
items as novels, notebooks, pens, pencils, rulers, flashcards and other
essentials for today’s young scholar.
According
to the Chapter President, Jeunesse Osadebay-Bullard, the Nassau Bahamas Alumnae
Chapter has always kept a pulse on the national needs of our youth and will
continue to work with social and civil leaders to limit their social and
economic setbacks: “In the past, our
chapter has hosted several community programs that target Bahamian youth from
an array of socio-economic backgrounds. We will never hesitate from that
undertaking—this is our national pledge to this country as Deltas,”
Among
those programs is the PACE Foundation, to which NABC recently committed to
assisting with the refurbishment of its new home. The new facility will educate
and rehabilitate dozens of teen mothers.
Osadebay-Bullard
added that similar donations would be made from the collegiate arm, Upsilon
Zeta at the College of the Bahamas and the Grand Bahama Alumnae Chapter in
Freeport, Grand Bahama as the chapters unify their efforts.
Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority is a public service, non-for-profit organization that was
founded to promote academic excellence and those in need. An act exemplified by
its 22 collegiate founders at Howard University; an act that continues through
its over 350,000 membership that represent 1,000 collegiate and alumnae
chapters around the world.