“Male Talk” focuses on issues affecting young men

This afternoon male students from Edward P. Yorke High School sat down at the N.D.F.B. building to discuss issues not exactly covered in the classroom. Simply put, they were engaged in “Male Talk”, the issues that affect and concern them as young men. The initiative was spearheaded by the Belize Family Life Association and its aim, as B.F.L.A. Youth Officer, Arthur Usher explains, was to pinpoint exactly what’s bugging our guys.

Arthur Usher, Youth Officer, B.F.L.A.
“Just basically dealing with the root issues rather than just putting a patch over things.”

Marion Ali
“What are some of those issues that concern men?”

Arthur Usher
“I would say mainly their roles in society that’s one of the main things that came out today. How they see themselves and how they view themselves and how that translates into their role and how they play that role within the family and with their female or with the ladies. It translates a lot in terms of how they deal with family.”

Marion Ali
“Is it very different from the issues that women stress?”

Arthur Usher
“Not really. It’s all intertwined. If we can’t really deal with ourselves then we can’t really deal properly with the women, so it’s all intertwined.”

Participants in the “Male Talk” forum included Senator Godwin Hulse, Bert Tucker, and Godsman Ellis. This was the second such forum that B.F.L.A. has organised. The next will come around Father’s Day in June of 2008.