GEPAN is a non-profit, secular organisation which works to empower socially and economically challenged populations in rural and hinterland communities in Guyana. Founded by Anna Correia de Sá in January 2016, the organisation aims to establish as its name suggests, a network of people desirous of contributing to positive changes at the community level, whether through charity or empowerment initiatives. We place special emphasis on helping women and children by providing basic necessities and supporting education through our annual SEC program.
Our core team is comprised of a group of passionate, dynamic and proactive individuals who believe in giving back to communities. A New York chapter was established in 2018 in response to the tremendous support for our work by the Guyanese diaspora in North America. We do not receive salaries, government funding, stipends, per diem or other financial benefits and we run solely on the generosity of our private donors, in our pursuit to empower women and children. Our work extends beyond Georgetown, spanning indigenous communities from as far as the Rupununi Savannahs to Moruca and Mabaruma. Rural communities on the Essequibo Coast, East Coast and West Bank among others, have also benefited from our annual SEC program.
Documenting the living conditions of our beneficiaries also forms part of our mandate and is congruent with our efforts to sensitize and raise awareness on the vulnerability and poverty levels to which some segments of the Guyanese population are confronted daily.
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Georgetown, 23rd October, 2018, GEPAN wishes to express its growing concern over the manner in which cases of rape, sexual assault and violence against women and girls (VAWG) are being handled by authorities in Guyana. Read more…
GEPAN, Georgetown – This year GEPAN has extended its annual Support Education Campaign (SEC) to include children from the hinterland, more specifically from indigenous communities. Of 396 children from Primary and Secondary Schools slated to Read more…
Georgetown- During the month of August, GEPAN distributed clothing to three indigenous villages inhabited mainly by resilient Macushi people: Yorong Paru, Tipuru and Karasabai. Despite the challenges in terms of transportation and logistics, our hinterland Read more…
Toshao of Maruranau Patrick Gomes, received on behalf of his community Maruranau located in the Deep South Rupununi, hygiene products, backpacks and water bottles to cater for the needs of over thirty (30) teenagers. Parents Read more…
Georgetown – Some of you would recall Carol-Ann’s public plea for assistance for her two young toddlers a few weeks ago. Carol-Ann is one of many victims of domestic abuse and gender-based violence, but this Read more…
by Joanna Correia de Sá – Gender-Based Violence (GBV) generally refers to any harmful act which is perpetrated against a person’s will on the basis of their gender and more specifically as a result of Read more…
