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Students invite public to help build a home

For Release Upon Receipt - November 12, 2009

St. Augustine


UWI students are putting the finishing touches on a new home for persons in need. ‘You Can Help,’ a volunteer programme that relies on students and community groups who offer their time and services to construct homes for the needy, will complete construction on a Tunapuna home, on Saturday 14th November, 2009, from 10 am to 2 pm. Anyone interested in joining the approximately 40 high-school and university students who have taken part in this endeavour, can assemble at either North Hall, Dean Street, St. Augustine or Green Street, Tunapuna.  

The ‘You Can Help’ programme kicked off in 2005, when 70 secondary school and university students pitched in to help build a Gran Couva home for a needy family with eight children. The programme was launched by North Hall, a registered non-profit organisation that aims to help young men make choices that will lead them to become responsible adults. At North Hall, students are exposed to human development programmes via seminars, conferences, hikes, spiritual development classes, mentorship programmes and sports. The ‘You Can Help’ programme helps students to understand the value of community service and deepens their holistic development.  

For more information about the ‘You Can Help’ programme, please contact North Hall at northhall@gmail.com or call (868) 645-9755, or visit the centre located at 7 Deane Street, St Augustine. 

 

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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, 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 over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 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, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

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