| The New Jersey Arya Samaj Humanitarian Mission (NJASHM)’s Empowerment Centre at Babu John, Port Mourant, Corentyne,China Jerseys, is almost ready to be opened. The new Management Committee gave this newspaperThe members of the new Management Team.an update on the multi-million-dollar project which began a few years ago. Currently, the project is in its Third Phase, with Phase Four to commence shortly,Wholesale Jerseys, in the construction of a Benevolent Home for homeless children and battered women.Pandit Kamaldeo Dhanessar noted that skills training for women will be taking place in the two- storey structure. Additionally, school dropouts would be welcome at the centre “to give people a second chance, through training and employment.”The building is equipped with several rooms in which the various programmes would be carried out. Some of the facilities ready at the centre include garment construction, welding and fabrication as well as joinery. “These are programmes that can allow people to establish their own small businesses—small entrepreneurs, when they would have completed their training programme.”The NJASHM Empowerment Centre in Berbice.There will also be an area in the building dedicated for training of persons in the food catering business.“As it stands now, we are in the process of painting and hopefully, this building will be in operation by August,” he stated.Mr. Satesh Udit, President of the NJASHM Village Project, stated that the group held elections last September and a new Management Committee was formed. The Vice President is Mr. Vishwanand Bharrat; Secretary, Mrs. Shafeeza Nandalall; Treasurer, Gerald Deepoo; Secretary- Treasurer, Ms. Aeisha Vanier; and Administrative Officer, Pandit Suresh Sugrim.The team, he stated, will be working very closely with the community.“It is an empowering/skills training centre we have here,Jerseys Wholesale, and what we would be doing here would benefit the school drop- outs, giving them the skills and knowledge so they can enter the world of work.”Udit stated that the entire Berbice area will be targeted. He said that Berbice needs such a centre due to the high rate of school dropouts and other social issues, especially drug abuse and teenage pregnancy. “We decided we are going to build this centre to focus and to cater for those school dropouts.”Pandit Sugrim, visiting from New Jersey, is currently in Guyana to oversee the completion of the project. He said that the group is trying its utmost to cut back on expenses “because we are limited on funds.”“This project has gone a far way through the benevolence of the Guyanese- Americans who have contributed towards this centre…We are still asking for help from the local corporate offices.”Sugrim called on more local donors in Guyana to come on board to see the fruition of the centre as well as Phase Four, the construction of the Benevolent Home, where senior citizens and those forgotten by society can enjoy a safe haven.“Truly, we want to make a difference in this community, by creating jobs and breaking the cycle of poverty,Cheap Soccer Jerseys, through education.”Sugrim noted that giving handouts and money is not the solution to helping the poor and needy,Discount NFL Jerseys, “education is the key to success, so as a group, we are looking at ways of how to bring the family back together; bringing individuals back together so we can have a civil society of respectability.”The Administrative Officer said that the Mission is trying to teach people to fish as it were, instead of giving them fish, “so we can break the cycle of poverty in a very meaningful way.”“I am asking the donors at home (in Guyana) to (come and) see the beauty of this project—we are not asking you to donate your monies to give someone a pants and shirt—rather to educate and empower youths,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, women and children in this community, so we can make an intense impact.”The Mission, he stated, has leaped beyond religion, race, social standing and political beliefs as well. Persons desirous of assisting with the completion of the project can reach Sugrim in 649-3319 or Mr. Dhanessar on 626-7648. |
