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…
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…
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…
GUYANA – Yesterday, sixteen-year-old Radika Tanesha Bissoon of Essequibo Coast received a laptop computer from GEPAN under our Support Education Campaign. Tanesha is a fourth form Business Stream student who, along with her younger sister and brother, performs well in school. However, the low-income family has been under strain Read more…
Yesterday January 31st, 2018, GEPAN paid a visit to young Chetram Ramphal of Bush Lot village, East Berbice Corentyne (Region 6). Thirteen year old (13) Chetram Ramphal comes from a single parent home and is the youngest of five (5) children. After losing his father Chetram Ramphal Sr. who died Read more…
GEPAN’s Support Education Campaign completed its last outreach in the Pakuri Village – St. Cuthbert’s Mission, Region #4. It was the organisation’s final intervention under the SEC 2017 campaign before the reopening of schools countrywide. GEPAN member Angelique Temaul, delivered stationery and other school material to a village representative, including water Read more…
During the course of the past week, one hundred and thirty (130) children from the Essequibo Coast, Region #2, received back-to-school items from the Guyana Empowered Peoples Action Network (GEPAN). Beneficiaries included children from Red Village, Lima, Lima Sands, Dartmouth, Golden Fleece and Adventure Sands. The Essequibo Coast population relies Read more…
The Guyana Empowered Peoples Action Network continued its Support Education Campaign (SEC) 2017 in Moruca, Region #1. Packages to assist with back-to-school expenses for twenty-five (25) children were delivered to the Haimacabra Primary School , as well as stationery to the Kamwatta Primary School. GEPAN Secretary, Don Stoll, explained that it Read more…
The Second community benefiting from GEPAN’s Support Education Campaign (SEC) 2017 was Anandale, located on the East Coast Demerara, Guyana. Above: local NDC Councillor Mr Baksh, with GEPAN members Anna Campbell-Persaud (left) and Atika Stephens (right) GEPAN partnered up with the local Buxton/Foulis Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) through Councillor Baksh Read more…
