At risk youth can reach for the ‘SKYE’ with USAID project

By Oluatoyin Alleyne On In Daily Features |
Kishaunna King stands in her boutique on the opening day when she was presented with items from the SKYE project.
Kishaunna King stands in her boutique on the opening day when she was presented with items from the SKYE project.

Kishaunna King was a high-school dropout with no sense of direction. But a chance meeting with a coach from the USAID’s Skills and Knowledge for Youth Employ-ment (SKYE) Project saw her being able to turn her life around.

Now the proud owner of a boutique with an eager desire to return to her studies, King, 18, lays it bare telling the Sunday Stabroek that prior to being part