Georgetown : The Margaret Clemons Foundation (MCF) rolled out the first phase of its “Inside Out Witness Project”, which aims to draw attention to and spark conversation about the effects of adult human behaviour, particularly gender based and child directed violence on society’s most vulnerable and impressionable witnesses, children.
Ministers of Human Services and Social Security and Education, Jennifer Webster and Priya Manickchand respectively today joined 15 Guyanese children, US Ambassador Brendt Hardt and Canadian High Commissioner, David Devine, and several volunteers yesterday as they lined the sea walls at Turkeyen with artwork depicting the human eyes, symbolising the firm stance to ensure that abuse and violence against children and women, do not go unnoticed.
Minister Manickchand in a brief comment to the Government Information Agency (GINA) emphasised that in their actions, adults need to be more conscious of the fact that children are witnessing everything, both good and bad that is happening in society so as to ensure that negative and harmful behavioural patterns are not imparted to them.