Twenty young women who are the first batch of scholarship recipients from the First Lady’s Scholarship initiative, yesterday graduated from a one-week training programme with the Atlantic Alliance Maritime and Offshore Training Institute (AAM&OTI).
The graduates who hail solely from villages within Region One, underwent training in basic safety training and ship security awareness programmes, which includes firefighting and fire prevention, personal survivor techniques, first aid, and personal safety and social responsibility. At the small graduation ceremony held at the institute located at Friendship on the East Bank of Demerara, Director of the AAM&OTI, Miranda Thakur-Deen, remarked that she had signed a Memorandum of Understanding some two years ago where she pledged to provide free educational courses to young woman. She then reached out to the First Lady’s Office where the decision to enroll the first batch of scholarship recipients was made.