The True Vision Foundation is inviting donors with an interest in community-building to partner with it as it embarks on forestry in a timber concession recently granted to it and organic farming for unemployed youths from Albouystown.
In a press release the group’s founder and chairman Randolph Thorne said it recently acquired a timber concession from the Guyana Forestry Commission for the project. The concession will provide an opportunity for about 100 unemployed youths to become involved in forestry production and organic farming.
Youths would be divided into two groups and would be employed to intercrop organic cash crops, peanuts, pineapples and citrus, the release said. According to Thorne, the group does not plan to harvest trees but diseased trees would be cut down and burnt to make charcoal.
Thorne said the focus of the project is to provide an alternative source of employment for the youth to prevent them from starting a life of crime. He also noted that Albouystown also comprises a large number of unemployed female single-parents and it intends to address issues that affect them, specifically by creating jobs to empower them financially.
The group said it is recruiting, training and hosting orientation at the Vision Training Foundation Complex in Castello Housing Scheme, West La Penitence.
