Close to 1000 children in Region One benefiting from early childhood development programme

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The Canadian delegation posing with regional officials, UNICEF representatives, Community Health Workers and parents at the Khans Hill’s Health Post where one of the Early Childhood Development corners is located. (UNICEF photo)
The Canadian delegation posing with regional officials, UNICEF representatives, Community Health Workers and parents at the Khans Hill’s Health Post where one of the Early Childhood Development corners is located. (UNICEF photo)

Close to 1000 children inclusive of over 300 migrants are beneficiaries of quality early childhood development programmes and family support services in Barima-Waini,  a visiting Canadian government official has been told.

This was highlighted by UNICEF Guyana during a recent visit to the region with the visiting Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Canada, Maninder Sidhu; High Commissioner of Canada to Guyana, Mark Berman; Director General for Central America and the Caribbean, Sylvie Bédard and Political Counsellor, Caroline Mireault, Counsellor, among others.

According to a release yesterday from UNICEF,  in 2021 the Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and Development, Canada provided a grant of three million Canadian dollars to ensure that children under four years old and their parents have access to quality childhood development programmes.