| Last week, we showed you the disturbing revelations about the Belize City Youths who were housed at the BDF's Camp Belizario. The Commander of the BDF revealed that the next generation of youths is already being trained as hardened criminals.
During that revelation, Brigadier General David Jones made a public call that some sort of intervention needs to be made urgently or else these youths will continue down the destructive paths. One man who is answering that call is stevedore and labour activist Raymond Rivers. He's planned an outreach program which uses sports and education as a means of positively influencing the City Youths into changing trajectory.
It's called the R3 Youth Movement, and today, he called us out to explain it and why you should support him:
Raymond Rivers
"The R-3 youth movement is a youth movement that will take all the umbrellas organizations and we will put it under one umbrella and we will have volunteers who go out to school and we have mentors and everybody in Belize will work together like how the people of Succotz work together. We want to have that same kind of feeling and that same kind of way that we want to do things now when it comes to the youths. Its urgent that how we save the youths from now because the future of Belize looks dims when it comes to violence, like the violence will never stop."
"Tomorrow night at the Memorial Park we will have meeting for all Belizeans - all 6th formers, teachers, principals, policemen, BDF - we want the Chinese community out there. We want the Hindu community out there, we want the Nigerian community - everybody who have businesses in Belize - the Tourism Board, the City Council, coaches who are already in the sports. Thanks to the media house that is out here today, we want plumbers, masons, carpenters to rebuild parks and paint and put water in the parks after when we finish everything."
"It's urgent and Belizeans want the killing more - if they don't come out - we understand that we want the killing happens more, if they come out at this meeting tomorrow that means we know that we want to make a fight against this violence and killing that is happening in Belize."
Rivers says that he and others will be holding a public meeting tomorrow night meeting at the Memorial Park. All are invited, and if you more information, it can be found on the newly created Facebook page, R3 Youth Movement. Additionally, you can reach him at cell number 668-0025.
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