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Monique’s Caring Hands to launch Youth Awareness Workshop
Some of the youths that will be involved in the ‘Youth Awareness Workshop’.
In its continuous drive to promote safe sex practices, literacy and healthy lifestyles, Monique’s Caring Hands is now targeting underprivileged youths and school dropouts from Bare Root, East Coast Demerara.
Tomorrow and on the following day the entity will host a two day ‘Youth Awareness Workshop’ which is geared at elevating youths of that area, increasing their level of literacy and teaching them to set new goals and aspirations, even as it attempts to improve their communication skills.
The workshop will be hosted inside the YWCA building at Brickdam, Georgetown. Speaking with staff members at the entity’s Norton Street office yesterday, this newspaper was informed that the workshop was initiated after the entity conducted an outreach exercise in Bare Root in March, and interacted with many youths who were either school dropouts or just basically unemployed.
Findings coming out of a survey revealed that young people there were “just struggling to survive” so to speak, and “had no vision” which is not expected with youths. Sources indicated that the young just lived from day to day in fear of the police and many were prone to criminal activities as a means of survival.
Those involved in the workshop have already been signed up with the Ministry of Human services according to reports from the Monique’s Caring Hands entity.
The Health Sector Development Unit funds this project.
Subject areas to be tackled at the workshop will include communication, steps for resolving conflicts and goal setting, assertiveness, and difference between empathy and sympathy.
Twenty students will begin the workshop and a similar project is being planned for youths on the West Coast of Demerara.
The Monique’s Caring Hands whose ‘mother company’ operates in the USA has a local arm in Guyana situated on Norton Street and several ‘micro units’ operating in villages in Guyana.
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