In December, we told you about the police mentorship programme. Well, it quietly kicked off this weekend - as a structured programme run by the department of Social Services and the University of Belize Department. On Saturday, 22 Social Work students, interacted with 76 at risk youths at four facilities across the city. The kids are broken into groups aged 12 to 14, 10 to 13, 14 to 17 and 10 to 12. We found out what the effort was about - we were not allowed to get footage of the children in the mentoring section so that they are not singled out in their peer groups:
The session went from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm and all the kids were participated in sporting activities & were served a warm lunch. Notably all the social work students are female since there are no males in this cohort.
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