The Ministry of Education, Department of Youth’s Mentorship programme is to be rolled out in March 2017 and Georgetown students will be focused on.
GINA said that the programme aims to address the social ills and challenges that the students face, according to Director of Youth, Melissa Carmichael.
Carmichael told GINA that the mentors will be deployed to most of the schools in Georgetown.
Carmichael said that the Youth Department “would have made connection with the Sport Commission and the Director of Culture to recruit persons who are specialists in sport using their database, as well as the persons who are skilled and qualified in the arts areas to come on board as mentors.”
The mentors will be given a curriculum which caters for career development, career guidance and social challenges that students face on a daily basis. She said that the Ministry’s peer educators will also join the mentorship programme to assist with those recruited for the programme.
Carmichael said that the assigned peer educators will focus mainly on educating the students about sexuality, teenage pregnancy and the other social issues that they face.
“We don’t want the programme in the school system to be too excessive, so we want our mentors to multi-task while the peer educators will speak to the students about the social ills and challenges they face”, Carmichael added.
