The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak is devastating for poor households with limited resources and revenues to sustain them during home confinement and lockdown. Those with children are particularly affected. In Guyana, many survive from pay-cheque to pay-cheque, and the minimum wage cannot support the cost of living. The result Read more…
Last week GEPAN conducted an outreach at the Enterprise Secondary School located on the East Coast Demerara, with the help of local youth leader and Facebook Developer, Samantha Sheoprashad. As part of our year-round SEC initiative, we used the opportunity to distribute 40 book bags with stationery to a class Read more…
In September 2019, GEPAN with the support of its donor network, donated a HP 17″ laptop computer to the Quality Bilingual Education Programme (QBEP) centre in Aishalton. The computer was gifted to the centre to assist the senior Nursery Field Officer (NFO) to conduct pedagogical activities in the 3 nursery Read more…
GEPAN continues to invest in its year-round Support Education Campaign (SEC) by providing ICT material to learning institutions and children in need. Though there have been efforts from governments to introduce Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in schools in Guyana, not all schools benefit from ICT hubs or learning centers Read more…
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…
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…
GEPAN, Georgetown – Every year, GEPAN provides stationery and school necessities to children as part of our commitment to enhance access to education. These items are given to children whose families are financially challenged and who subsequently find it difficult to attend school due to limited resources. This year, back-packs 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 benefit from the programme, 350 packages including backpacks, exercise books, pencils, erasers, sharpeners, pens, crayons 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 and student representatives through the Region 9 Regional Democratic Council (RDC), launched a call for Read more…
Georgetown – GEPAN dispatched boxes of stationery to the Rupununi, (Region 9, Guyana), mainly with the objective of supporting the CSEC class of 2018. Stationery included notebooks and composition books, pens, writing paper and folders, as well as work books to support Mathematics and Industrial Arts /Technology classes. Recycled Primary Read more…
