Roving Caregivers Programme of SVG receives funds for RCP Project

The Organization of Women of the Americas (OWA) has awarded US$5,000 to the Roving Caregivers Programme (RCP) of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.{{more}}

The award will fund the RCP Project – “Women, Children and Community Learning together in the Roving Caregivers Programme” – which seeks to enhance parenting knowledge, stimulate good parenting behaviour and promote appropriate child rearing practices among project participants.

RCP is an informal early childhood development programme that aims to reach young children (birth – three), who do not have access to any structured formal early childhood development services. The programme’s core objectives are to provide early stimulation for children in their formative years and improved parenting practices amongst parents and other caregivers.

The Organization of Women of the Americas, a non-profit, charitable organization founded in 1997, comprises female Ambassadors who are permanent members of the Organization of American States (OAS), as well as the wives of Ambassadors, Permanent Observers and Alternate Representatives to the OAS, along with the wives of the Secretary General and of the Assistant Secretary General of the OAS. The organization works to highlight the social and cultural realities facing women and children in the Western Hemisphere and supports the identification and financing of solutions to their needs and problems.

The OWA award was presented to RCP Coordinator Judith Hull-Ballah on Monday, February 25, at the office of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The OAS Country Representative, Melene Glynn, made the presentation on behalf of OWA.