Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce donates US$50,000 to alma mater | News

Dash legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce made a shock donation of US$50,000 to her alma mater Wolmer’s Excessive Faculty For Ladies on Thursday.

The contribution was made throughout a celebration on the college the place Fraser-Pryce was gifted with anothe Key to the Metropolis of Kingston.

The olympic champion stated what prompted the donation was when she came upon that the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Company was having the occasion on the college, she needed use the oppourtunity to “bolster the help” she have for Wolmers.

In line with her beliefs, the donation, valued at an estimated J$7.8 million, was made to advertise schooling and construct a pathway to success for the following technology of ladies.

“Wolmers has contributed to who I’m as an athete and what i have been in a position to do off the observe as properly. Mrs Montague is the principal right here at Wolmers Excessive Faculty for Ladies [and] can also be a director of the Pocket Rocket Basis and he or she has been so for over the past 10 years, so giving again to the establishment was simply the appropriate factor,” Fraser-Pryce stated.

“There have been alot of occasions the place I wanted assist with various things and I [was] in a position to get that being right here at Wolmer, so for me…it wasn’t tough to do,” she added.

Fraser-Pryce first step foot on the campus as a scholar 26 years in the past again in 1999 to 2006.