A parent receives her cash grant from Finance Minister dr. Ashni Singh at Queen’s College [Photo: Ministry of Finance/ August 02, 2022]
The Senior Finance Minister also emphasized that Government’s commitment is to ensure that it creates the necessary conditions for today’s generation of young Guyanese to have a good quality education. He added that the cash grant disbursement would go a long way in meeting the critical needs of students in order for them to purchase stationery, uniforms and other school supplies, adding that the total countrywide disbursement will place $ 6 Billion into the hands of parents of these children.
Dr. Singh reminded that while the $30,000 cash grants would assist parents in ensuring that their children have access to a good education, items purchased alone would not enable them to have this good quality education unless parents and teachers both work together consistently as a whole and do all they can to ensure that children attend school regularly, do their homework as well as complete all assignments. The Senior Finance Minister explained further that Government would continue to assist in all the areas it is required to, such as construction of schools, the provision of text books and other school supplies and in ensuring that quality teachers are placed at each school. He also pointed out that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Government intends to keep its commitment of moving the ‘Because We Care’ cash grant to $50,000 by the end of its current term.
In 2021, Government disbursed a total of $3.3 Billion in ‘Because We Care” cash grants to public school students countrywide. The cash grants were also extended to students attending private schools where each child received $19,000 amounting to a total of $284.8 million. This amount was increased to $30,000 this year.
