Wesley College observes Red Ribbon Day

It has become one of the longest running educational campaigns in the country but the students and staff of Wesley College remain determined to win the battle against illegal narcotics. Today, the annual Red Ribbon Day was celebrated with a parade as the advocates sent out the message that; True Winners Don’t Do Drugs.

Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting
?Do you believe that your school?s efforts have motivated students from other schools to live a drug free life??

Brenda Armstrong, Principal, Wesley College
?I would hope so, I believe so. We began this initiative in 1999 and so for–this is our eight red ribbon week and for all those years, little by little I have heard about other schools undertaking the same initiative. Because we are in the fight together and I think our students whose friends go to other schools influence those friends and it helps. In the long run it is for all the young people.?

?As a school we do not claim to be drug free, but we claim to be a school that strives to commit itself. So when we find members of our school community that are in need of help then we can intervene. So what we have found is that persons who find themselves falling into the traps come to us, and even self referred there is no penalty assigned. Miss I feel I have begun to drink too often or drink at all and then we get the interventions going or smoke or whatever it is. I think the programme has helped.?

On Thursday the students’ mothers and fathers will meet to interact and discuss issues surrounding drug use.