Govt offers support to the Buxton/Friendship Youth Incubator

The Buxton/Friendship Youth Incubator was launched on Saturday at the Tipperary Hall, Buxton, East Coast Demerara, with the aim of fostering the overall development of young adults in the community through empowerment and mentorship.

During the feature address, Education Minister Priya Manickchand expressed optimism and excitement about the potential outcomes of the work the organisation has undertaken and what the organisation represents.
The Education Minister said the nation’s youth are Guyana’s prized resource. She said, “They (youths) are the ones charged with innovating, and creating the transformations necessary for the realisation of our country’s potential going forward.”
Minister Manickchand said that as a nation, Government is duty-bound to provide the necessary support structures to ensure that youth “don’t just exist, but thrive.”
She said that issues such as education, health, employment, violence, poverty and others, continue to confront youths, some of whom are oftentimes ill-equipped to effectively navigate these challenges.
“This organisation, therefore, deserves praise for firstly recognising the needs of our youth in the community and secondly taking the initiative to address same. Your efforts represent the disposition and spirit needed to effectively improve our society,” Minister Manickchand is quoted by a statement from the Education Ministry as saying.
The Government, she added, has a mandate to create the enabling environment for organisations such as the Incubator to flourish.
“It is at the community level that you are most attuned to the realities of our citizens and ideally positioned to have a positive impact. It does take a village to raise a child and the more we band together to provide the safeguards and promote the healthy environments within which our young people can self-actualise, the better a nation we will be,” Manickchand noted.
She said that her presence at the organisation’s launch ceremony signals the Government’s willingness to support such grassroots efforts to build Guyana one community at a time.
She encouraged other communities and segments of society, such as the Private Sector to see value in supporting similar efforts of youth and community development, adding that she would like to see the Buxton/Friendship Youth Incubator written boldly across the fabric of Guyanese society as another success in community-based advancement.