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52 graduate with Life Skills through Citizen Security Programme
The Ministry of Home Affairs through its Citizen Security Programme
The graduates and the officials.
and The St. Francis Community Developers recently hosted a graduation ceremony for young people in the Rose Hall Town/ Williamsburg area who successfully participated in a six-month Youth Life Skills/Vocational Training Programme under the theme –‘Breaking down Walls, Building Bridges’.
Funded by the Inter American Development Bank (IDB), the goal is to give young people who may not have had the opportunity to obtain a full secondary education, a second chance in life to empower themselves.
The young people numbering 52, received certificates after successfully completing training in a number of courses including cosmetology, information technology, food preparation and service, welding and fabrication, joinery and construction, auto mechanics, carpentry and refrigeration among others areas.
Speaking at the graduation ceremony which was held at the St. Francis Community Developers Annex Restaurant at Side Line dam, Region Six Chairman, David Armogan, congratulated the graduands for choosing this path in their lives.
He noted that in most developing countries the important resource is young people.
He said unless society developed and empowered our young people, Guyana will continue to remain in poverty and backwardness. “The only way to arrive out of poverty is through education and training so that young people can begin to take their places in society and ensure that you have growth and development. Very often young people drop out of school because they do not have a preference for academics.”
He added that Government has recognized the need to empower young people making them economically dependent; as a result our communities become safer once our young people have opportunities to develop themselves.
Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee also congratulated the gradaunds for reaching the milestone. He told the gathering that there are some young persons who want to make a contribution to Guyana’s development.
“People who have criminal minds would not participate in a programme like this because they have their own agenda. Those who participate in the citizen’s development programme are those who want to make their lives productive and contribute to the economic development of Guyana in their own way.”
Regional Chairman David Permaul Armogan presents a certificate to one of the participants
He stated that people would want to question why the Ministry of Home Affairs would want to get involved in a programme such as this. “Irrespective of race, creed or beliefs, gender or age the security of the country is in the hands of all its people.”
“The Minister noted that the police force has the mandate to deal with law enforcement and therefore it is us the citizens who have to make a contribution to the safety and security of our country.
Minister Rohee noted that citizen’s security means that the government must create employment opportunities for its citizens, but it makes no sense if you do not have the people who are skilled to take advantage of these opportunities.
Also speaking at the ceremony was Alex Foster, President of the St. Francis Community Developers and Chairman of the Rose Hall Town/Williamsburg Community action council among others.
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