Petra Organization, health ministry renew pact to tackle gender-based violence

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From left to right, the Petra Organization’s Mark Alleyne, Senior Health Promotion Officers Kewana Darrington and Lauren Bancroft, Adolescent Health Coordinator Cilandell Glen, and Co-Director of the Petra Organization Troy Mendonca.
From left to right, the Petra Organization’s Mark Alleyne, Senior Health Promotion Officers Kewana Darrington and Lauren Bancroft, Adolescent Health Coordinator Cilandell Glen, and Co-Director of the Petra Organization Troy Mendonca.

The Ministry of Public Health and the Petra Organization have renewed their longstanding partnership, aiming once again to utilise the annual Milo Secondary School U-18 Football Championship as an avenue to address the social ill of gender-based violence.

This collaboration was announced yesterday at a press conference held at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

 “We will be setting up satellite tables at all of the games to disseminate information on sexual reproductive health, substance abuse and most importantly, violence among our adolescents.