The smallest act of kindness can have the greatest impact
Today GEPAN joins others worldwide to observe International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Violence against women is still entrenched in the psyche of our Guyanese society in which verbal, emotional and physical abuse continue to be rampant. We recognise that abuse in its varying forms is often condoned by both men and […]
Westbury is a small community juxtaposing Dartmouth, along the public road on the Essequibo Coast. Its residents are predominantly Guyanese of African descent, with a minority of East Indians, Amerindians and mixed. The poverty stricken community is a hub for drugs (mainly marijuana), and is affected by a high level of alcoholism. It is also […]
The women of Red Village are among the most vulnerable to poverty on the Essequibo Coast, in Region 2 (Pomeroon-Supenaam), Guyana. Predominantly Amerindian, this community has no health centre, community multipurpose building or properly maintained play field. The pitched streets are built on sandy loam soil which due to erosion, caused undermining and overall […]
GEPAN’S Support Education Campaign (SEC) was launched in August 2016, as an incentive for parents to send their children to school. The initiative falls within the organisation’s scope of empowering people living in Guyana’s rural communities, particularly single mothers and their children, and consists of donating stationery packages and other school supplies to children attending […]
GEPAN, Friday, September 9, 2016: The Guyana Empowered Peoples Action Network (GEPAN) through its Support Education Campaign (SEC), donated stationery gift bags to primary School children of Kuru Kururu, located on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway. The community is comprised of predominantly Amerindians and people of mixed descent who migrated from different parts of Guyana. Kuru Kururu is […]
Lima on the Essequibo Coast, Region 2, was the fourth community to benefit from The Guyana Empowered Peoples Action Network’s (GEPAN) Support Education Campaign (SEC). Stationery gift bags were donated to 21 Primary School children of the New Housing Scheme on Thursday, September 1. The packages were donated by a member of GEPAN on […]
The Guyana Empowered Peoples Action Network (GEPAN) under its Support Education Campaign (SEC), donated stationery gift bags to 26 Primary School children of Tenez Fairm in Canal Polder #1, West Bank Demerara, Region 3, last Sunday. GEPAN’s Executive Member Rishma Ajodha, delivered the packages to the 26 children on behalf of the organisation. She visited […]
GEPAN, Guyana, September 8, 2016: The Guyana Empowered Peoples Action Network (GEPAN) on Sunday, September 8, continued its Support Education Campaign (SEC) in Hope village (Hope Estate) located on the East Coast Demerara, Region 4. SEC is an initiative which was recently launched by GEPAN, to encourage school turn-out for children coming from modest […]
The Guyana Empowered Peoples Action Network (GEPAN) in an attempt to support education and assist parents in Red Village, Essequibo Coast, Region 2, distributed stationery to Primary School children within the community. After having worked in the community earlier this year in partnership with the Suddie Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC), the organisation with the help […]
Today is International Children’s Day, one of the days dozens of countries have set aside to reflect on children’s rights. The Guyana Empowered Peoples Action Network (GEPAN) remembers the children of the streets, those who are victims of forced labour and TIP, those who are victims of poverty and abuse in its multiple forms. We […]
