UNFPA supports delivery of health and wellness information

Facilitators and tutors of the Board of Industrial Training (BIT) across the country benefited from training to improve their delivery of health and wellness information during a three-day Comprehensive Health Care and Wellness Workshop, which was held in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

The facilitators were educated on topics such as mental and emotional health, sexual and gender-based violence, personal care, self and interpersonal relationships, and others.

Mr. Richard Maughn, Chief Executive Officer of BIT, spoke briefly on the relevance of this program, which attempts to re-expose facilitators to current health and wellness information needed to adequately teach their respective trainees. It also supplements the agency's 2020 shift to broaden the coverage of health categories like mental and physical health, among other aspects, via an online platform.

Mr. Maughn stated that the project is linked to the agency's goal of developing skilled workers who can successfully integrate into the workplace. To that end, he promised that similar workshops would be held in the future because of this collaboration.

Mr. Adler Bynoe, Liaison Officer at UNFPA, presented briefly on the agency's journey since 2008, when it began collaborating with numerous vocational and technical schools to integrate health care and wellness subjects into their respective curricula. The workshop was one of several initiatives completed by the agency to provide facilitators, tutors, and the necessary expertise to share.

Also present at the workshop was UNFPA's Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Coordinator, Ms. Babsie Giddings.

Republished, with edits, from the Board of Industrial Training Guyana