Georgetown : Human Services and Social Security, Jennifer Webster at an end of year press conference at the ministry said the International Labour Organisation (ILO) TACKLE project will be continued by the government and the National Action Plan on Gender Based Violence will be completed.
The Ministry plans to make life for senior citizens much easier in 2014 through the provision of special training for health officials in the area of caring for the elderly.
A lot of emphasis will be placed on the provision of better transport for senior citizens as they often complain of the mini buses not wanting to transport them. More attention will also be paid to senior citizen’s homes.
The TACKLE programme which ended in July 2013, was aimed at ensuring children remain in school, with the hope of reducing and some day ending children school drop outs and reducing, preventing and later eliminating child labour. The ILO funded project continued with two components until September.
The Ministry hopes to continue provision of transportation, nutritional support, numeracy and literacy help, parenting workshops and psychosocial support to students of Dora and Kuru Kuru along the Soesdyke-Linden highway.
About 360 children of the Kuru Kuru Nursery and Primary Schools and the Dora Secondary were the beneficiaries of the TACKLE project over the past two years.
Domestic violence has been one of the Ministry’s major focus areas in 2013, and this will continue in 2014 as it plans to work along with the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to create a special unit for victims. It will be a one stop centre where victims can report abuse.
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