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UWI Family Development Centre unveils Hope

For Release Upon Receipt - July 15, 2013

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad & Tobago – The University of the West Indies Family Development Centre (UWI-FDC) has unveiled Trinidad and Tobago's largest child-initiated acrylic painting on canvas. The unveiling of this 24' x 10' painting, appropriately titled Hope, was held at the newly constructed Family Development Centre on St. John’s Road, St. Augustine. 

Following the results of the UWI-FDCRC National Art Competition, a specially selected group of 22 participants was given the opportunity to attend a training workshop to further develop their growing skills. These Trinbagonian artists, ages 3 to 18, came from areas as far as Tobago, Matura and Carapichaima. From February 2013, for ten Saturdays, the artists and their facilitators spent 50 hours detailing and refining the work. The acrylic painting represents the culmination of the end of phase two of The UWI-FDC Nature and its Environment Project.  

Members of the concept and coordination team included Dr Carol Logie - Lead – Conceptual Design; Elsa Clarke- Lead Provocateur/Facilitator, and Kenwyn Crichlow- Consultant. Facilitators included Alex Kelly, Aisha Provoteaux and Kevin Vincent. Project Coordinators were Kalifia Constantine and Eunice Gittens.  

For further information on Hope, please contact The UWI-FDCRC at 663-8914 via email at fdp.uwi@sta.uwi.edu or log onto their website at http://sta.uwi.edu/fhe/FDCRC/index.asp  

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About UWI-FDCRC

The UWI-FDCRC is a dynamic and unique dual-purpose organisation. Comprised of the Children’s Research Centre (UWI-CRC) and the Family Development Project (UWI-FDP), the Centre has been a model for developmentally appropriate early childhood care and education (ECCE) both locally and regionally. 

The UWI-CRC provides training for future early childhood professionals and frequently conducts workshops for parents and the wider ECCE community. The closely aligned UWI-FDP generates research with the aim of improving the life outcomes for children of Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean. 

About UWI

Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with 45 physical site locations across the region, serving 16 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science & Technology, Food & Agriculture, and Social Sciences. 

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.) 

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