4H students receive $3000 from Minister of Youth

The Salvation Army wasn’t the only school to receive financial assistance this week as on Thursday, Minister of Youth and Sports Cordel Hyde paid a visit to the 4H Youth Development Centre in Belmopan where he handed over a cheque for three thousand dollars. According to Manager Luke Ramos, the money will be used for two projects, the first of which will be to strengthen the institution’s curriculum on HIV and AIDS.

Luke Ramos, Manager, 4H
“So that we could look at what we are doing at 4H to make sure that that area of HIV and AIDS, as well as the other S.T.I.s, which are affecting young people in an integral part of what we do at the centre. Coupled with that also, with the production of the handbook, the other project will be, we’re going to be producing a newly revised 4H handbook that will be very youth-friendly. Within it, we’re going to have some specific information on HIV and AIDS so that you the students, as you are talking about HIV and AIDS, if you noh remember some of the facts about it, you can quickly pull out your book.”

Cordel Hyde, Minister of Youth
”In order to be successful doesn’t require that you be considered handsome or pretty or popular. In order for you to be successful requires that you work hard, that you work hard every single day, whether it be home at night studying your homework, or whether it be working hard in the fields or whether it be paying attention in the classroom and doing your best at your work, but it requires hard work.”

The 4H Centre is a one-year programme which allows teens to specialise in areas such as agriculture and food processing, building technology, and tourism development. There are currently fifty-five students enrolled at the institution.