12-hour Radio Call-a-thon to assist ailing Nevis teacher

By Jaedee S.K. Caines
Nevis Reporter-SKNVibes.com

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis - MEMBERS of the Waset Education Foundation Inc., teachers, students, friends and well wishers collaborated Tuesday to host a 12-hour Radio Call-a-thon on Choice 105.3 FM to raise funds for the treatment of the Federation’s 2006 Teacher of the Year, Maureen Adams.

Adams is currently in Jamaica receiving treatment for a serious and debilitating medical condition called Neuromyelitis; a disease of the central nervous system.

The aim of the Call-a-thon was to raise $10 000 to help defray Adams’ medical expenses.  When the programme ended at 10:00 on Tuesday night, the group had raised approximately $7 000.

Friend and member of Waset, Rhonda Maycock, spoke of Adams’ friendly personality.

“Maureen has so much energy, people think I’ve got energy but Maureen doesn’t stop.  A lot of times we have to beg her to stop but she’ll put 200 percent into anything that you ask her to do. She is patient, she’s tolerant, she’s just got a huge heart and there’s no way that anybody who knows her won’t be able to contribute towards her medical expenses,” Maycock said. ~~Adz:Right~~

A teacher at the Charlestown Secondary School (CSS), Pamella Pemberton, offered her views on the kind of person Adams is known to be.

“Mrs. Adams I think, as everyone knows, is an extra special teacher, an extra mile teacher. She does all that she can to help anyone who needs her help…she would never turn down an offer to assist anyone, therefore we are doing this to help her and we hope and we pray for her full recovery,” Pemberton said.

Adams is a teacher at CSS and a founding member of the newly formed Waset Education Foundation Inc.

According to Esther Brookes, a member of Waset, the Foundation is primarily concerned with educating children.

“Waset is a group of people who came together to change the way our children are educated,” Brookes said.