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The Youth Empowerment Alliance is having an Easter egg hunt on Monday at Rotary Park at 10am. They'll have fun and games for the kids.

The Department of Youth Services' Youth Empowerment Sports Camp has finished, and the students received their certificates at the closing ceremony.  Thanks, DYS, for engaging the youth!

"On Friday, 70 participants successfully completed our 2 week Youth Empowerment Camp.This is an annual Educational Sports Camp that is spear headed by DYS in Partnership with the Youth RISE project."

The 2017 Youth Empowerment Camp will be on July 17th and 18th at Sacred Heart Junior College.  Contact the Cayo DYS office at 804-0540 for more information.  Thanks, DYS!

"Summer is here once again, the Department of Youth Services San Ignacio and Santa Elena are now Recruiting youth ages 12 - 24 for our 2017 Youth Empowerment Camp which will be held at Sacred Heart Junior College on July 17 - 18"

CariCom is having their Aspiring Youth Empowerment Program, which will help instill business and entrepreneurial skills. There's still a week left to apply.

The Department of Youth Services had their 2017 Youth Empowerment Camp recently, and one of the major projects they undertook was the Santa Cruz Park Restoration in Santa Elena.

They have a little picture collage video about the Summer camp, and many great pictures.

"The Santa Cruz Park in Santa Elena, Cayo is a now brighter, more inviting space thanks to a collaboration between the Youth Rise Project in the Ministry of Human Development, Social Transformation and Poverty Alleviation, the Cayo Department of Youth Services (DYS), and the San Ignacio/Santa Elena Town Council. On 24 July 2017, eighty-five (85) youths from the Youth Empowerment Summer Camp hosted by DYS and Youth Rise, spent the day beautifying the park for the camp’s community service day activity.

As part of the joint effort, the Town Council made a number of improvements to the park including repairing four cement park benches, adding new chains and wooden swings sets, installing a new slide and rehabilitating a wooden see-saw. The youths, aged 10-19, then spent the day painting all the new installations in bright colours and adding paint lines to the basketball court, which now has a new rim courtesy the Youth Rise Project. The community service day was geared at instilling civic pride within the youths who are attending the two-week summer camp. Throughout the course of the camp, which runs from 17th-28th July, the youths have been participating in sporting activities as well as educational sessions on topics such as cyber bullying, fire safety, environmental awareness, and sexual and reproductive health."