Help and Shelter continues work with EU, USAID funding

Mar 08, 2013 News

On a monthly basis the Help and Shelter offers services to about 30 persons, this is according to Coordinator Margaret Kertzious, who revealed that there are currently four counselors at the crisis centre at Homestretch Avenue, Georgetown, and another at their shelter.
Kertzious explained that persons receive counseling for domestic violence, physical, sexual and emotional abuse. She further disclosed that they also do referrals for persons who need resources such as food and clothing, so that needs of the “victim” can be satisfied.
According to Kertzious, Help and Shelter is currently receiving funding from the European Union under the Human Rights programme. She said that counselors also do face to face sessions with victims. Support service is also given to victims who have to make court appearances. She explained that counselors would accompany victims to court, as well as teach them how to operate in a courtroom.
Help and Shelter also receives funding from USAID. Kertzious explained that funding is for the Reduction of Gender Based Violence in Schools in Region Three. She indicated that the funding focuses on two secondary and two primary schools.
Help and Shelter was the brainchild of a support group created in 1994 as an adjunct to the Georgetown Legal Aid Clinic (now Guyana Legal Aid Clinic). The members hold a general meeting to elect a board of directors annually and day-to-day operations are carried out by a combination of paid staff, project personnel and volunteers (who may be, but are not necessarily, members of the company).
Since its establishment in November 1994, Help & Shelter has become a recognised leader in the fight against violence in Guyana, particularly in the areas of domestic, sexual and child abuse. It was recognized that domestic violence takes a heavy toll on an individual’s emotional and physical health and has high social and economic costs for families, communities, workplaces and the country as a whole.
The organization works to build respect for the rights of women, children, youth and men to live free of violence and the threat of violence, by actively fostering a high level of awareness among all sectors. Secondly, the members try to assist women, children, youth and men to develop alternative ways of handling power and resolving conflict by providing progressively enhanced counselling for victims and perpetrators of violence through counselling services, including a crisis hotline.
They also try to establish a resource base to ensure the sustainability of Help & Shelter by working towards the economic self-support of the proposed shelter and implementing a well-articulated fund-raising plan.

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