Week 1: Very fun!

Hi everyone, this is Britney, Hannah, Gwen, and Tara reporting to you from Georgetown! 😃 We arrived from Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Tuesday morning and were welcomed by our Program Directors, Shannen and Megan's familiar faces. We were lucky enough to have the other Peer Educators who are located in Berbice, stay an extra night with us and we spent our first day exploring the National Park (and meeting the manatees located there), and getting ready for the busy week ahead.

The next day we met with Dr. Allister Collins who works under the Ministry of Education as the Executive Officer of the President's Youth Award. The President's Youth Award (PYA) is a voluntary non-formal educational program that provides young people between the ages of 14-24 years with a balanced program of activities for individual development. The program aims to empower and foster socioeconomic enhancement among Guyanese youth in accordance with the National Youth Policy of Guyana. We are very excited to be working under the PYA this year!


The rest of the week was very busy as we started to develop our weekly teaching schedule for the 7 weeks to come. It was nice to meet students and teachers who were familiar with QHO from previous years and were excited to welcome us back! We had the chance to teach our first lessons in 2 different schools where we focused on introducing ourselves and QHO to the students, and then lead into a lesson on physical fitness. The students were very enthusiastic and we enjoyed the classrooms a lot!

Next week we are looking forward to engaging in discussions in more classrooms and reaching out to more organizations located in Georgetown!

Signing off,

Britney, Hannah, Gwen, and Tara 😃