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UNICEF provides support for Region One schools accepting Venezuela children

Aug 05, 2018 News

The United Nations Children’s Fund, (UNICEF) is providing support to almost a dozen schools in Region One that have been accepting children from Venezuela.
That figure represents just a fraction of schools, which have accepted children from the Spanish-speaking neighbouring country in the Region.
UNICEF ‘S country representative, Sylvie Fouet, had told the press recently that there are at least 74 schools in the Region but there are challenges with taking in the children from Venezuela owing to the language barrier.
In this regard, UNICEF has reached out to offer support in the form of interpreters to the schools. Fouet said that UNICEF has continually been monitoring the situation in Region One.
“Most of the communities that we have visited were actually absorbing not only children but families, mainly in the Amerindian area,” she said.
The UNICEF country representative said too that emphasis is being placed on water and sanitation.
She noted that the country office will be offering much needed support to the Social Worker Network.
Thousands of migrants have been fleeing from the troubled country, making their way into border areas of Region One, sparking actions from the authorities to provide supplies and grapple with solutions.
Recently, the Civil Defence Comission and UNICEF joined forces to address the issue of the increasing number of Venezuelans coming into Guyana.
The relief supplies, which include shelter, water, sanitation and hygiene are being procured within Guyana to the value of US$30,000.
The CDC has disclosed that it will deploy the relief supplies within the coming weeks to the regional administrations for storage and distribution. The supplies will target an estimated 60 families per region with the total number of persons benefitting estimated at 900.
A few days ago, Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix, said plans are in motion for the establishment of a homestead settlement area for the 260 confirmed Venezuelans, who are occupying areas in Barima-Waini (Region One).
Minister Felix said that the resettlement area will allow the Venezuelans to be self-reliant.
“It is intended that we [will] develop something like a homestead where families are accumulated and eventually we can move them into cash crop farming. We can encourage them so that in the first instance, they can feed themselves, and if they have surpluses, they can sell.
We are looking at crops for their sustenance and their immediate needs. Once you get that going, then the next thing is to guide them into areas in which they can sustain themselves.
The immediate outcome is that we want to see them properly settled and they must be able to sustain themselves…,” he said.
Rather than criminalise the Venezuelans, Minister Felix said that the Committee and by extension, the Government, has chosen to respond to the situation in a humane manner, with concern for the safety, health, and accommodation of the migrants.

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