Seventeen indigenous villages in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) are now better informed on aspects of labour issues and trafficking in persons after their toshaos and village councillors successfully completed a workshop in Kato, GINA said.
The two-day interactive sensitisation/training sessions were held by the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs in conjunction with the Ministry of Social Protection.
The villages’ representatives also participated in sessions (day one) on domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse and sexual abuse.
A representative each from the Ministry of Health and the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA) also conducted cervical cancer tests in Kato and Paramakatoi and the results were “better than expected”.