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University of Madras will host volunteering workshop Updated: Updated: The three-day programme starts today Share Article The three-day programme starts today On Tuesday, the University of Madras will launch a three-day training programme on offering psychological first aid (PFA). The programme is open to students of affiliated colleges. The virtual event will be inaugurated by City Corporation Commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi. “The course is aimed at frontline or essential workers and volunteers dealing with the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. You do not have to be a specialist to deliver PFA,” explained S. Thenmozhi, programme convener and head of the Department of Counselling Psychology. The programme will benefit healthcare and social-care staff, first responders, frontline public-sector staff, essential workers, volunteers, supervisors and managers. ....
Workshop highlights problems of minority communities National May 19, 2021 PESHAWAR: The Local Council Association (LCA) arranged a training workshop with the support of commonwealth Local Government for the protection of the basic rights of the minorities. Former local bodies’ representatives and minority members from across the province participated in the workshop. Speakers highlighted the problems being faced by the minority communities. They asked the government to take steps for providing protection to minority communities in Pakistan. The speakers said the government had allocated a five percent quota in every government department for the minorities. However, they said that the minority members were not being hired on the basis of that allocated quota. ....
GOP States Spurn Unemployment Funding to Force Workers Back Into Low-Paying Jobs A customer walks by a Now Hiring sign at a BevMo! store on April 2, 2021, in Larkspur, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images As the pandemic raged in 2020, tens of millions of U.S. families were kept economically afloat by expanded unemployment benefits which lasted longer, were of higher value, and were accessible by more categories of workers (in particular freelancers or independent contractors) than was the case in non-pandemic moments. In the first terrifying days of the pandemic and the accompanying public health-informed shutdowns, the economy nose-dived, seemingly with no bottom in sight. Within a month of the initial shut-down orders, unemployment had increased to roughly 15 percent. In states like California, with particularly strict shutdowns, that number was far higher still. Moreover, millions more were likely jobless but statistically invisible, as unemployment o ....
Gospel choir star Tony Backhouse takes workshop in Napier 16 May, 2021 08:22 PM 4 minutes to read International musician Tony Backhouse is running a gospel choir workshop in Napier. Hawkes Bay Today [email protected] The Napier Gospel Choir is shouting it from the rooftops. New Zealander Tony Backhouse will be back in Hawke s Bay to run a weekend workshop on June 25-27. Tony is Australasia s most accomplished and well known community choir director. He is also a composer, author, singer, and musician. Advertisement This is a great opportunity for new and experienced singers to jump in and sing out with Tony. We are delighted to have him back in New Zealand and Hawke s Bay, says Napier Gospel Choir conductor Ross Browning, who took over from Tony four years ago. ....