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| Ms Christine Storey (L) hands over the cheque to Sister Eldina Farrell (R) while Ms Archer, Mr Jeffers and Sister Jeffers look on. |
CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (May 2, 2006) -- A group of nurses from the Alexandra Hospital known as The Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) Providers received an EC$8,100 cheque to assist with their ongoing Youth HIV/AIDS education awareness programme in Secondary Schools on Nevis.
The gift came from the United States Peace Corps Volunteer in collaboration with the Nevis Island Administrations' Ministry of Youth and Sports and Community Affairs.
While presenting the cheque at the Alexandra Hospital on Friday April 28, 2000, Ms Christine Stoney Peace Corps Volunteer attached to the Ministry of Youth and Sports explained that the donation came about, following a Behaviour Change Workshop in October 2005.
"A Youth and Sports team and I attended a workshop in October on behaviour change communication and from that, we worked towards creating a proposal which has recently been accepted and we would like to contribute this money to the VCT Providers in their initiative working with youth in HIV education," she explained.
Nurse Sister Eldina Farrell, Advance VCT Trainer, received the cheque on behalf of the VCT Providers thanked the US Peace Corps for funding their project, specifically the VCT Providers assigned to the Charlestown Secondary School and gave an overview of the project.
Our project preparing our adolescents, preserving our future was initiated in February when we went into the school and gave basic information on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, risk behaviour, healthy living and positive and negative behaviour.
"Laura Henry who is not here today called and asked how else they can help us in carrying out future activities at the school. We met and later I met Christina and developed a proposal, sent it off in March and here we are today. So I am very happy to say thank you to the United States Peace Corps and Christina for their hard work in helping us realise our goals," she said.
Also present at the presentation ceremony were other members of the VCT Providers including Sister Bernadette Jeffers, Sister Ward Stanley and other Ms Judy Archer and Mr Jeffers from the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
