Teach a Boy (TAB) Launch

Basseterre, St. Kitts, January 19, 2020 (ZIZ News): The Advancement of Children Foundation and its community partners gathered at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort on Thursday to launch their joint project entitled “Teach a Boy” (TAB) St. Kitts.

Chair of the Advancement of Children Foundation, Naeemah Hazelle spoke about the issue that birthed the TAB project.

“The issue is the problem with our formal education system in the Caribbean as a whole and the ways that it caters or doesn’t cater to the academic and psycho-social needs of boys contributing to delinquency and deviance.”

She also stated that the TAB project is a social enterprise that raises money to facilitate programmes.

“The money that we raise from TAB goes back into three separate programmes, some of the funding will go back into the Advancement of Children Foundation, to help fund programmes like this [TAB], some of the funding will go back into Her Majesty’s Prison to help fund rehabilitation programmes, and some of the funding will go back into AVEC who are our partners in the TAB tours and souvenir portion of the TAB service as well as the monetization of TAB services or handyman services and part of the money will go back into their school as well for them to use to benefit their students. So this social enterprise is a new creative way to raise funds.”

Ms. Hazelle went on to explain the benefits of the TAB project.

“If we’re raising money we can show the value for vocational education, the importance of teaching technical vocational education that once you get to AVEC you can monetize that skill as an entrepreneur, that will reduce our chances of losing our boys and also reduce our chances of joblessness and delinquency by providing an entrepreneurial skill, developing a skillset for our young men and putting value back into technical vocational education that our schools provide.”

The TAB project was this week officially registered as a non-governmental organization.