Help & Shelter
Events
2004
The rap sessions and other awareness seminars are co-ordinated under
the project from the UNIFEM Trust Fund.
October
- Session done with 25 Nursery School teachers from BV/Triumph
Community at LBI Nursery School for UNIFEM project
- Session done with the Guyana Police Force, Senior Officers
Training on Child Abuse for UNIFEM project
September
- Session held with nurses at Georgetown Public Hospital
Corporation to familiarise on Domestic Violence
August
- The UNICEF Peace Education project continues in the communities
of Lodge and Covent Garden with different target groups including front
line workers, religious leaders and other interested persons. Please
click here to download the reports
- A twelve hour orientation session was held with a cross section
of Hindu workers on domestic violence, child abuse and suicide -
through the Our Children Our Future Group.
- A session is held on Child Abuse with the Rights of Children
Committee, Region 6 in New Amsterdam
July
- Session held on Child Abuse with Guyana Police Force Training
Programme for 30 Constables, through UNIFEM project
- Session held with the Cove & John Ashram Youth Camp for
UNIFEM Project
- Help & Shelter participates in UNICEF Peace Education Project
- first community is Beterverwagting
- Session held in Paramaktoi for UNIFEM Project
- Other sessions held with Friendship Youth Development Centre
- Orientation session held for new volunteers and other persons who
are interested in DV.
June
- Employees of DDL Security Service request leaflets to share
with colleagues.
- Session held on Child Abuse in Region 3 with communities around
Kawal Primary School
- Session held in Kamarang on DV for the UNIFEM project
May
- Session on DV held with Region 6, Church of Christ
- Help & Shelter supported the Global Women's Strike by
marching with the Crossroads Centre in Guyana in the May Day Rally.
April
- Session held with lay pastors in training for the Reformed
Churches in Guyana at Burns Memorial Church
- Session on DV held with Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation on
14 April, 2004
- Other sessions on DV continued with the Region 5 Women's Affairs
Committee, and with the Church of Christ, Region 6
March
- Session held with students of Roadside Baptist Skills Training
Centre, No 63 Village Corentyne
- Workshop conducted in Regions 2,4 9
- H&S supported IWD activities including the Global Women's
Strike, and a talk with women from three labour unions
February
- Session held with Guyana Police Force
- Seven rap sessions were done at Kitty Health Centre with the
pre-natal and post-natal clinics
- One day session was held in Mahdia Secondary School, Region 8
- Stabroek News has an editorial
on Child Abuse in Guyana
January
- Workshop is held in Siparuta, Region 6, in collaboration with
Roadside Baptist Skills Training Centre
- First workshop is held with Varqua Youth Can Move the World
project
- GEF workshop concluded in Lethem Region 9
- Domestic Awareness Seminars were done for nurses at the St
Joseph's Mercy Hospital Nursing School
- An awareness session is held at the Grove Maasjid