Twenty Trinidadian youngsters were taught to use animation principles to create animated stories about their lives and how they perceive their futures, at a workshop staged under the Caricom Programme on Crime and Violence Prevention last Friday.
Deputy Programme Manager for Culture at the Caricom Secretariat Riane de Haas-Bledoeg encouraged the participants to make full use of the training to empower themselves, in her remarks at the opening of the workshop, held at the Youth Training Centre in Trinidad and Tobago. Animation and digital media were among the new technologies young people could use to tell interesting and creative stories about themselves, their community, their culture and the world, she said.
de Haas-Bledoeg also encouraged the participants to