UNICEF donates 100 Early Childhood Development kits

Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Dr. Vindhya Persaud; UNICEF Area Representative, Nicolas Pron; UNICEF Deputy Representative for Guyana & Suriname, Irfan Akhtar and High Commissioner of Canada to Guyana, Mark Berman along with students of the Lovable Friends and Kiskadee Daycare centres inspect an Early Childhood Development kit at the handover ceremony. (UNICEF Guyana photo)

Some 40,000 children under the age of four, along with twenty thousand parents/caregivers in Guyana, will soon benefit from quality Early Childhood Development (ECD) programmes and family support services, according to UNICEF Area Representa-tive for Guyana and Suri-name, Nicolas Pron.

As part of the programme, UNICEF Guyana has donated 100 ECD kits to the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security (MoHSS).

In a release yesterday, UNICEF Guyana said that the announcement was made during a handing-over ceremony at the Children and Family Centre in Sophia George-town.