Educating Our Adults On the 24th of August 2018, the Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) in collaboration with the Office of the Prime Minister, Gender and Youth Affairs hosted a training session in child protection for bus drivers and school bus drivers. This session educated the drivers in recognising, preventing abuse and also theRead more about Educating Our Adults[…]
Today’s Crime In the nation of Trinidad and Tobago, crime is definitely at a high. Every day the murder toll rises. Currently it is at 318, which is shocking considering the fact that we are only half way through the year and that our population is approximately 1.3 million people. It leaves everyone toRead more about Today’s Crime[…]
LGBTQ+ Rights in Trinidad & Tobago Very recently, the topic of LGBTQ+ rights has come to light as a law deemed “unconstitutional” preventing the equal treatment of those who are lgbtq+ in Trinidad and Tobago has been repealed. Many Trinbagonians are quite religious, saying that homosexuality goes “against god” or is an abomination whileRead more about LGBTQ+ Rights in Trinidad & Tobago[…]
U-Report T&T The U-Report platform by UNICEF will be soon launched in Trinidad and Tobago! U-Report is a platform which will enable the youth of T&T to answer weekly/bi-weekly questions on matters which affect them. The statistics collected by this platform will be available for use by anyone and will hopefully be used toRead more about U-Report T&T[…]
Creating Child Friendly Spaces School is a place where learning and our social life begins as a child. We actually spend more time at school then anywhere else during our childhood/ teenage years. A lot students think that school is a literal jail. This is partly true as the building itself replicates aRead more about Creating Child Friendly Spaces[…]
Child Rights Ambassadors Programme At City Hall in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, the Office of the Prime Minister launched the Child Rights Ambassadors Programme on the 20th November,2017 to commemorate Universal Children’s Day. The programme enables forty seven children chosen from eighteen schools and 4 community residences across Trinidad and Tobago, to speakRead more about Child Rights Ambassadors Programme[…]
Teens Raising Awareness for Gender Based Violence From the 12th to the 21st of July, Createfuturegood a non-profit organization based in Trinidad and Tobago, hosted a workshop for young artists and activists to raise awareness for gender based violence amongst teens. I was very fortunate to be a part of this wonderful process filledRead more about Teens Raising Awareness for Gender Based Violence[…]