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‘Monique’s Caring Hands’ completes successful year

Jan 10, 2009 News

Monique’s Caring Hands, as stated by Chief Executive Officer Dawn Stewart, has completed a successful year with every project and initiative it embarked on during that period.
In an interview on Thursday, the USA-based CEO noted that the Guyana leg of her organisation still struggles to satisfactorily carry out its functions.
The CEO stated that the entity is also gearing to officially launch several projects this year, all designed to benefit and assist persons affected by HIV/AIDS, drug addiction, domestic abuse, discrimination, and stigmatization of various forms.
Monique’s Caring Hands is a prestigious non-governmental organisation that embarks on several programmes geared at eradicating literacy among youths, and educating them on relevant issues as the organisation continues its campaign against HIV/AIDS.
This NGO, whose ‘parent company’ operates in the USA, has a local arm in Guyana on Norton Street, Newburg, and several ‘micro units’ operating in villages in Guyana.
Ms Stewart indicated that, for last year, the organization hosted six successful ‘sister-to-sister’ projects, each comprising 40 women and funded by the Ministry of Health and the CIPEC entity.
An International Youth Summit was hosted in August at Camp Madewini, Timehri, and was attended by 80 teenagers from Berbice, Linden, Mahaicony, Georgetown and other outlying areas.
At its annual event, students are taught gender issues, literacy, and important information surrounding HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy and safe sex practices.
There were projects for young girls from troubled homes, and Ms Stewart emphasized that these initiatives assisted greatly in building self-confidence, esteem, and new hope for such victims.
Monique’s Vulnerable Children’s Project was attended by some 350 children and their families from Sophia, West Demerara and other areas. This forum was used to interact with and investigate cases of children being abused, molested or otherwise mistreated; and as indicated by the CEO, the findings were ‘quite surprising’.  These cases were resorted to counselling and other strategies to ensure the victims recover from their experiences.
The organisation also successfully concluded its Phonics Programme for children aged eight to 16, and engaged in weekly hospital visits to several medical institutions during its interaction with families and patients in the male and female infectious wards. This drive was aimed at getting families to accept such patients back into their homes and give them the needed support they deserved.
In this area, the CEO noted, some families were not ready to embrace such an idea. The ‘brother-to-brother’ projects were also successful, according to Stewart, and were centred on ‘men interacting with their peers’ on important issues surrounding sex.
Monique’s annual Children’s Christmas Party was attended by some 60 children, and was well executed. This year around, according to the CEO, the organisation will launch several new programmes, and will pattern a few to target issues surrounding homosexuals, bisexuals, heterosexuals and other related personalities. Youths involved in the various projects of the organization have since managed to gain employment in the Guyana Defence Force, Guyana Police Force and other entities, according to the CEO. (Alex Wayne)

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