The United States Agency for International Development (USAID/Guyana) through its Governance Enhancement Project (GEP) yesterday awarded grants in the amount of US$58,600 to three Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), to implement domestic violence issue-based activities in Regions 4, 6 and 8. The recipients are Red Thread, Help and Shelter and the Roadside Baptist Skills Training Center.
Addressing the grantees, at the grant award signing ceremony held at the Georgetown Club, Carol Horning, Mission Director, USAID/Guyana, affirmed the commitment of USAID to work with the Government of Guyana and civil society to address domestic violence through programmes focusing on the reduction of domestic violence incidents.
“Domestic violence,” Horning said, “stretches beyond the victims and affected families and strategies to address these heinous acts should be focused on transforming those social norms and structures that are the root causes of domestic violence.”
