Regional Body providing psycho-social support to children in shelters
CHILDREN NOW IN shelters due to displacement by the passage of Hurricane Beryl are this week receiving psycho-social support from the Caribbean branch of an international body.
The humanitarian assistance is being provided by the Coordinating Committee for the Caribbean, a branch of the International Literacy Association (ILA), whose assistance is couched under the theme: ‘Psychosocial Support Through Literacy’.
This committee was established in 2010 and comprises literacy leaders from Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Jamaica, British Virgin Islands, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago. Its main objective is to promote literacy in the Caribbean, through activities which include sharing best practices in classroom instruction. “The devastation left behind by Hurricane Beryl, created an opportunity for CIDCAR’s members to demonstrate solidarity with the government and people of St.Vincent and the Grenadines,” a release from the Ministry of Education states in part.
The committee’s chair, Blake-Browne is leading the delegation’s visit to shelters on the mainland, targeting the children from the Southern Grenadines and Bequia.
The team will be in SVG from August 1216, 2024.
It objectives of the mission are to:
• provide psychosocial support through literacy.
• build capacity of local literacy professionals.
• highlight the work of CIDCAR in the Caribbean and,
• provide resources. A professional development session will be held on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at the conference room of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Conference Room from 9 a.m to 1 p.m. The focus will be on the theme for the mission and will target teachers from the Southern Grenadines, and members of the St.Vincent and the Grenadines Literacy Association (SVGLA). It will be facilitated by both local and regional professionals.
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