Anti-violence project Witness set for massive roll out

Witness planning in New York from left: Kristine Morgan, a team leader; New York-based Guyanese American Studio Manager at Sesame Workshop, Alysia Christiani; Margaret Clemons of the Margaret Clemons Foundation and Project Director Nancy Stevenson.

A project which started here in August and which uses the arts in the battle to stop violence against women and children, has received a major boost that could see the work of Guyanese children highlighted the world over.

The Witness Project, through which the Margaret Clemons Foundation (MCF)  seeks to draw attention to and spark conversations about the effects of adult human behaviour, particularly gender based and child directed violence on society’s most vulnerable and impressionable witnesses,