Up until a few weeks ago when the Stabroek Business covered a meeting of the Guyana Association of Home Econo-mists (GAHE) relatively few people outside the professional circle knew about the existence of the organization and fewer still were aware of the fact that in April 2015 GAHE will be hosting a forum of the Caribbean Association of Home Economists.
GAHE comprises teachers in the education system who are trained in the multi-faceted discipline of Home Economics and who teach the subject in the local school system.
For a number of years we were prisoners of an understanding of what Home Economics was. It was the conventional understanding that Home Economics was the vehicle through which you taught young women to become good housekeepers. That may have changed in relatively recent years though there is no real evidence that Home Economics has been embraced as a discipline
