Youth housed at the Juvenile Detention Centre in Sophia will soon be able to benefit from a literacy and numeracy project through a collaboration between EPIC Guyana and Nations University.
The new project, which is expected to begin today, will see the youth being offered an opportunity to engage in interactive sessions with sixth form students of the Nations University in the areas of literacy, numeracy and computer literacy.
Co-Founder of EPIC-Guyana Brian Backer, in a recent interview with Stabroek News, said he has a hard time understanding why, in some cases, the same youth who have been locked up for not attending school are being placed in a facility that offers them almost non-existent academic opportunities.
