Four local NGOs awarded grants to strengthen HIV response

From left: CVC/COIN Country Coordinator Zenita Nicholson, Project Coordina-tor of Artists in Direct Support Mercia George and the Coordinator of SASOD Joel Simpson at the press conference yesterday.

The Caribbean Vulnerable Com-munities Coalition (CVC) and the Centre for Integral Orien-tation and Investigation (COIN), yesterday announced the first round of CVC/COIN grants in Guyana, under the ‘Caribbean Vulnerabilised Groups Project’.

The recipient NGOs were Artistes in Direct Support, the Volunteer Youth Corps, Youth Challenge Guyana and the Society Against Sexual Orien-tation Discrimination (SASOD), each receiving US$20,000.

CVC has joined with COIN to implement the project as sub-recipients of a Pan- Caribbean Partnership against