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Executive director of the Peace Management Initiative Damian Hutchinson.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created new social issues and has exacerbated the existing situations and derailed social intervention programmes that were reaping successes prior to the pandemic, according to Damian Hutchinson, executive director of the Peace Management Initiative (PMI).
“With COVID-19, these young men 14 to 17 years, now at home, with all these other negative factors that they were up against and have now taken full hold of them and so we have seen and we won’t know this probably until later this year that a significant amount of young men have dropped out of school,” he informed.
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Janilee Abrikian (left), general manager of PALS, participates in Peace Day activities at Denham Town Primary School in 2018 with (from second left) Akelia Thompson, student at Denham Town Primary School; Professor Elizabeth Ward, chair of the Violence Prevention Alliance; Joshua Jeffrey, student and Eugenie Brown, principal of the school.
Peace Day will be celebrated on Tuesday, March 2 under the theme Let’s Shape Peace Together .
The day will be marked with a series of activities organised by the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA) in collaboration with Peace and Love in Society (PALS) and its other partners.
One of the activities is a virtual Peace Day concert organised by PALS in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information and the VPA.
Executive Director of Children First Agency Claudette Richardson-Pious.
Claudette Richardson-Pious, Executive Director of Children First Agency wants a more coordinated approach in how change agents work at the community level to address crime and violence.
Richardson-Pious made the call while addressing the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA) Steering Committee meeting, recently.
“We have in a way become so funder driven that a lot of times ‘I’m in my corner and you are in yours’ and we are doing the same things and we are not talking to each other. Why can’t we come together, develop a comprehensive plan that is really about looking at violence prevention in a real way?” she asked.