The Volunteer Youth Corps (VYC) is conducting a literacy and numeracy project in Lodge for early school-leavers and single mothers in order to equip them with the skills needed to be productive.
The project was officially launched on Friday at the VYC training centre in Meadowbrook Gardens and is set to start next month. Close to 100 participants from Lodge and its environs have already signed up. VYC aims to host the programme every ten months but this will depend on donations from the private sector. VYC said its target is to reach 500 illiterate youths by the end of 2009. The Guyana Defence Force will play a key role in the programme, though it is not clear in what capacity. One option may be to incorporate those would-be recruits who failed the basic recruitment course into the programme.