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Taiwan Donates To NICH
Fri, September 15, 2017
A week ago, Taiwan donated $100,000 to the police department. Well they gave another 100 grand to NICH today. Now the money will certainly go a long way during the September celebrations with the host of events that NICH has organized. But the donation goes beyond just helping out with events. NICH will use the money to enrich a number of musical and cultural youth programs. We dropped by to find out about the significance of this donation.

H.E Charles Liu, Taiwanese Ambassador, Belize
"On behalf of the Government of the Republic of China/Taiwan, I feel very great to present a contribution of the sponsorship of $100,000 Belize dollars for the project that NICH has been working on. This contribution is only the symbolism of the friendship between Taiwan and Belize."

Courtney Weatherburne, reporter
"So it is several programs that will benefit from it, could you give me the specific names of the programs."

Gregory Vernon, Acting President, NICH
"Uhm the National September Celebrations Program that includes the Pan Yaad and Carnival and the different cultural programs that they have been sponsoring through the years. The other one would be the Mr. Peters International Bram, we have been doing that in honor of Mr. Peters every Christmas and it is an event that has been going. It has been on a local level going into Boom and going into different areas and now coming back to the Central Park and this will be an international Bram. The other one would be the gateway steel pan project this will be an air activity, training youth to learn to play the steel pan and developing in that area. The last one, the 4th one would be the Art in School Program, the primary school program now this will be extended to the secondary school as well as a teachers training to teach art in school."

"Notice everything that we are doing has youth focus. It is very important that we get youth off the street working them within the carnival spirit, working them within the September celebration spirt, working them playing instruments like our past president have said we will be beating a pan and not a man, so making sure our youth is focused and having something to do as extra curricula."

Courtney Weatherburne
"So pretty much in a nutshell it is focusing on youth in music and cultural activities?"

Gregory Vernon, Acting President, NICH
"Right music, cultural activities, dance, knowing to do the Creole Bram you know looking at our culture of course you know earlier we had the passing of Ms. Leela Vernon and making sure that the Creole Culture remain alive, having a focus having something that we will be able to focus in on and make sure that we move forward."

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