Education

GEPAN – Funding Higher Education

GEPAN continues to expand its SEC programme and this year’s novelty includes providing tertiary education opportunities to teenagers who otherwise cannot attend institutions of higher learning. This  includes funding summer classes at the University of Guyana for promising students who are ambitious but whose families cannot cover their expenses. Our beneficiaries receive US Read more…

Women

Femicide, benevolent sexism and Guyana

(Previous version published in journal The Thinker, Vol.2, January 2019, by Anna Correia de Sá) In recent years, Guyana gained notoriety for ranking among the top five countries with the highest suicide rates in the world, aquiring third place after Sri Lanka and Lithuania in 2017. According to the Small Read more…

Education

Santa didn’t forget them this year!

GEPAN, Georgetown – As the country prepared to celebrate the Christmas holiday season, hundreds of children from modest and impoverished homes were about to face a rather bleak Christmas morning. To add a bit of Christmas cheer, excitement and smiles to their faces, GEPAN with the support of its donors, Read more…

Education

150 children in Region 1 receive schoolbags and stationery under GEPAN’s SEC Programme

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 benefit from the programme, 350 packages including backpacks, exercise books, pencils, erasers, sharpeners, pens, crayons Read more…

Women

Bartica mother in need receives support

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 time, her husband is currently charged and forced to face the law for breaking her Read more…

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