First Lady celebrates with 24 graduates of ‘Care of the Elderly’ Workshop
First Lady Mrs Sandra Granger has encouraged the 24 graduates of the second ‘Care for the Elderly’ Workshop to keep pressing on and to complete the other component of the programme, even as she celebrated their achievements thus far at a graduation ceremony held in the Boardroom of the Social Protection Ministry.
“I hope that you would not only have enjoyed this week, but learnt skills and techniques to carry you forward… What you have been trained in reflects the [scope]…of the Ministry of Social Protection, and it is hoped that with your certificates, you will be able to move on in your professional life in caring for the elderly in one of our senior homes, or in any other criteria,” she said.
First Lady Sandra Granger celebrates with the graduates, who are pictured standing along with facilitators of the workshop on Friday
The First Lady reminded the participants that they must complete the First Aid component of the Workshop in order to complete the programme. The five-day workshop, which was organised by the Office of the First Lady, will see the graduates participating in a weeklong First Aid course which will be conducted by the Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS), and will see them becoming certified to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and First Aid. In the meantime, she encouraged them to “use what you have learnt here [and] take it with you.”
During the interactive part of the exercise, which was led by Ismay Griffith, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Facilitator, the participants demonstrated both positive and negative scenarios that they were likely to encounter while treating their clients, and the best practices to correct them. Several of them said they were very impressed with the compact programme, which was held over five days and held firmly to the mantra taught by Griffith: “Show some love”.
At the close of the programme, the graduates presented the First Lady with tokens of appreciation.
