|
'Children
against Poverty' 2003 summer programme
As
part of an ongoing National Youth Policy, the Ministry of Health
and the Ministry of Social Development organized a Summer Programme
for children and parents called 'Children against Poverty'. During
this summer programme, education was highlighted as the key to
eliminate poverty. An attempt was made to teach children how to
fight poverty, and to pass on skills that would last a lifetime.
Recognizing
that the marine environment is the heartbeat of the fisherfolk
in local coastal communities, the Small Islands Voice team and
the Sandwatch project team trained 23 students and 5 teachers
from the Bequia Anglican Primary School in Sandwatch methods and
activities on 31st July 2003. Beaches play an important role in
their lives and ways to measure the changes in these beaches were
demonstrated.
Photo
caption: Young sandwatchers learn about the beach at Spring Bay
The
students also took part in cleaning Spring Beach of a huge build-up
of debris that proved to be generally plastics, see also a newspaper
article 'Bequia youth stand out'.
A
proud group of students display their 'small mountain' of debris
at Spring Beach, Bequia
|
