The Child Care Counsellors have the responsibility of providing psychosocial support to children and families, individually and at the community level. This includes networking with other organizations and providing court support to the children who need it.

Duration: 12 months from 1 August 2008, renewable upon completion
Fee (gross): $70,000 per month

Prospective applicants are advised to review the attached Terms of Reference before submitting their applications and curriculum vitae.

Responsible for: supporting the project implementation and ensuring that all project deliverables are completed on a timely basis in compliance with the project schedule

Duration: 12 months from 1 August 2008, renewable upon completion
Fee (gross): $140,000 per month

Persons who have applied for the position of Part Time Project Co-ordinator, Reducing Gender-based violence at the community level need not apply again, but could express an interest.

Prospective applicants are advised to review the Terms of Reference before submitting their applications and curriculum vitae.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Violence meted out to children is not a new phenomenon and is not confined to Guyana and the Caribbean. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), violence is deliberate interpersonal behaviour liable to cause physical or psychological harm. This study focused on four types/ forms of violence – (1) Neglect (2) verbal abuse (3) physical abuse and (4) sexual abuse.

Background
On the November 24 2007, Help and Shelter in commemoration of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women had a booth next to Guyana Stores in Georgetown to provide information on the services that Help and Shelter offers, resources such as flyers, brochures and provide answer questions to the public on domestic violence, trafficking of persons and child abuse.
Help and Shelter staff and volunteers utilized this opportunity to administer 182 questionnaires to capture information on the following:
1. Knowledge of Help and Shelter services offer and location

On International Women’s Day 2008, Help & Shelter salutes and extends warm greetings to all those women from all ethnic groups throughout Guyana who continue to fulfill their numerous roles as mothers, grandmothers, wives, sisters, daughters, caregivers and breadwinners . We especially extend our support and solidarity to those who lost their loved ones in the massacres of Lusignan and Bartica.

Help & Shelter is inexpressibly saddened and appalled at and condemns unequivocally the massacre in Bartica of more innocent people: Edwin Gilkes, Dexter Adrian, Irving Ferreira, Zaheer Zakir, Shane Fredericks, Ron Osborne, Deonarine Singh, Ronald Gomes, Ashraf Khan, Abdool Yasin, Errol Thomas and Baldeo Singh.

We extend our deepest sympathy to the families, relatives, friends and colleagues of those who were cruelly gunned down and call - as we did following the Lusignan massacre less than a month ago - for those responsible to be brought to justice.

Help & Shelter and Red Thread joined to make submissions on the Draft Education Bill.

One key issue was the removal of corporal punishment from the Bill.

The second submission deals with other matters pertaining to the administration of education.

The theme for the 2007 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is "Demanding Implementation, Challenging Obstacles: End Violence Against Women".

Help & Shelter recognises the following obstacles to alleviating violence against women:

1) The failure of the Government to implement of the Policy Recommendations submitted by the Domestic Violence Task Force

2) Delay in the introduction of a Family Court

3) The degradation of women in advertising and popular culture

Help & Shelter has been in existence since 1995 and the production of this manual consolidates the experience and knowledge gained in trying to manage an NGO with challenges of human and financial resources.

This manual can be downloaded here. It is available as part of our commitment to accountability to the public.