Walkers recently provided seven local schools with tickets for various events at the Cayman Arts Festival.
As sponsors of the Festival, Walkers decided to send 100 deserving children to the event to experience the arts first-hand, said a company press release.
Walkers contacted government schools, offering a portion of the tickets for distribution to music students that teachers identified as having worked hard throughout the year or who demonstrated a passion for music.
Representatives from John Gray High School, Bodden Town Primary, East End Primary, Savannah Primary, Prospect Primary, Red Bay Primary and John A. Cumber Primary all accepted the tickets.
Karlene Buckle, Principal of Bodden Town Primary School, thanked Walkers for their generosity. ‘It is great to see the corporate world take such an interest in our community and children. We have several very deserving students and are pleased to be able to reward them with tickets to the Cayman Arts Festival, especially as we are preparing to compete in the National Children’s Festival of the Arts in March.’
Walkers partner, Ian Ashman, stated, ‘The Cayman Arts Festival is a fantastic event that features highly accomplished, world renowned artists. The festival presented us with the perfect opportunity to continue the firm’s ongoing commitment to expose as many of Cayman’s children to the arts as possible. Indeed, we are proud to sponsor the Cayman Arts Festival and are delighted to be able to send children to an event of this magnitude on the island.’
The firm launched its own arts initiative, the Walkers’ Children & the Arts Programme, in February 2003 to encourage greater involvement of youth in the local arts community.
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