Sustained Activities - Nurturing Young minds

An area that has shown considerable promise in empowering young people as they contribute positively to the community is that of the education of young children. The Nurturing Young Minds unit is offered in Block 1 and immediately requires the students to take community action. The community is visited and elders are asked a number of questions about child raising practices. The youth from the PSA groups then seek permission from parents to offer once or twice weekly classes to 3 to 7 year olds in which they teach the children early skills in the areas of numeracy and pre-operational scientific thinking, as well as songs, games and coloring. Nurturing Young Minds has been found to be a powerful catalyst for creating community awareness about PSA.