Title: YCI-Guyana Location: Categories: Human Rights Health Environment
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
January 1 00 to January 1 00
Description:
We are proud to offer dynamic programs in Guyana, South America: the 5 and 8 week Group Programs. They provide extraordinary opportunities for you to acquire solid skills from exciting and dynamic projects.
Group Programs: Join a team of volunteers and travel to Guyana to work with local people on community based projects. Live and work without the benefit of traditional support networks. Discover the key principles of sound community development and learn from local leaders who are making a difference.
Working in teams of 6 – 12 volunteers and 1 – 2 group leaders, participants will work for 5 or 8 weeks to improve the social and economic welfare of communities. Focuses will include HIV/AIDS and health education; youth skills development; literacy training; basic infrastructure and Women’s Networks.
Despite its legendary beauty and the romantic allure of its undisturbed hinterlands, Guyana remains one of the poorest countries in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Community capacity in Guyana suffers from a serious lack of skilled human resources, made worse by chronic emigration. Community leaders are often unable to respond effectively to locally identified needs due to a lack of resources and support. Yet experience has shown that small international volunteer teams mobilized by YCI can have solid impacts on community capacity and strength.
Over the past five years, our partner organization, Youth Challenge Guyana (YCG), has worked to create a national HIV/AIDS program. This program works with local peer educators to educate those living in rural communities about HIV/AIDS; YCG has also been successful in bringing testing clinics and care and support for those living with HIV/AIDS to communities isolated because of geography or ethnicity.
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