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Current Activities
Guyanese
Outreach's HIV/AIDS Abstinence
Program
started in September
2003. Students from the Skeldon High School
and Line Path Secondary School
as well as from various other locations attended this program. A
majority of those that attended the program pledged to abstain from
sex until marriage.
This HIV/AIDS Abstinence
Program is now
ongoing, educating the young people how to make healthy and wise
choices. This curriculum is a character-based sex education program
and consists of ten two-hour sessions. Trained facilitators from the
U.S. and GO’s trained staff presented its pilot program. To date
over 275 students attended this program. This program is absolutely
free of charge.
GO offers
Internet Service to the people of the
community. Students from both Secondary schools in Corriverton come
to use this service to do research for their SBA (School
Based Assessment) and daily homework assignment.
University of Guyana students also make
use of our service for research on their projects. People from the
community come in to send and receive mails, and browse the
internet.
Since 1995, GO has been sending
Humanitarian Aid
continuously to Guyana to distribute to various locations. Those who
have benefited from the aid are the people of Orealla, Siparuta,
Mabaruma in the North West Area with clothing, toys, school supplies
and medical aid. Medical equipment and supplies were donated to the
Skeldon, Port Mourant, Canjie and New Amsterdam Hospitals.
GO donated two EKG machines--one to
Skeldon and one to Mabaruma Hospitals. Other donations have included
an incubator, beds,
 wheel
chairs, and medical supplies.
Churches, Mosques and Mandirs in the Corentyne area have received
clothing, children’s toys, school supplies etc.
The Guyanese Outreach Library has a collection of over 6000 books and is open to the
public at large. Students from the primary and secondary schools as
well as people from the community, come daily to borrow books
absolutely free of charge.
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