Youth Week emphasizes healthy lifestyles

This Sunday marks the beginning of Youth Week, which will be held under the theme, “Breaking the silence: creating change through healthy lifestyles.” Acting Director of the Youth Department, Sherlyn O’Brien, explains why the emphasis on health.

Sherlyn O’Brien, Acting Director, Youth Department

“We know we have young people facing a lot of dilemmas such as drug abuse, teenage pregnancies, AIDS and STDs. We have a lot of areas that affect the health of young people in Belize and we decided to select the theme and focus on the issue of healthy lifestyles and try to look more closely at what are some of the issues and some of the things we need to start doing to concentrate on improving the health situation of our young people in Belize.”

The Youth Department pooled its efforts with N.G.O.s like the Y.M. and Y.W.C.A., Y.E.S., C.Y.D.P. and NOPCA to get out its message.