300611REDCROSS helping youths
By JOYCE TOHUI
Bougainville’s Red Cross chairperson, AIDA KENNETH says the Red Cross branch in Bougainville has a lot of programs that have been carrying out within the communities.
She told New Dawn FM that one of the programs which they are actually trying to promote and implement within the communities is based on youth which is called youth’s agents of behavioral change.
She added that the YABC training program is to try and help youths in all the districts in Bougainville but firstly awareness must be carried out.
MS KENNETH said that awareness have started already with the help from the National Youth Coordinator from the head office in Port Moresby who visited two weeks ago.
She said that the National Youth Coordinator started the awareness with the urban youths in town who were very interested in the program.
She said there are seven steps to the program but firstly is to help them set up their groups, governance, aims and objectives of what they want to do in those groups.
She also said youths will be assisted in developing their youth constitution in order to look after their groups.
MS KENNETH added that these are basically some of the steps involved in this training.