Internationally acclaimed St. Lucia photographer Kirk Elliott has donated the 1st prize in a recent schools’ essay competition organized by the Piton Management Area (PMA) Office.
The theme of the competition was “Why I Must POP – Protect Our Pitons”. Elliott’s prize was won by Shania Hippolyte of Les Etangs Primary School, Soufriere.
Manager of the PMA office, Augustine Dominique said it is important as Saint Lucians that we never take the Pitons for granted.
The competition was open to schools from Canaries to Vieux Fort. Elliott explained that the PMA manager had requested electronic tablets and he decided to augment this prize with National Geographic literature. This included a beautiful hard covered National Geographic book of 5000 Awesome Facts, a National Geographic Quiz book and an electronic collection of every issue of National Geographic’s monthly magazine for the last 125 years!
Elliott is a firm believer in using what he refers to as “fun education” to inspire the youth and his passion for promoting excellence made it easy for him to wholeheartedly embrace the idea of donating to their enrichment through these gifts of enjoyable education.
Elliott believes that it is not sufficient to complain about the ills of society, when by lending a helping hand we can contribute to improving things for us all.
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