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The Point Lisas Development Committee The Point Lisas Development Committee is an
organization that works to benefit the Couva and Point Lisas communities.
Its main focus is to help young people take control of their lives and
understand themselves in a positive way. To this end, the committee will be
offering Anger Management courses for students, parents and teachers in the
1st week of February 2007 at the Couva Social Services Centre. At present
the committee is looking to raise funds to provide 75 families with food
baskets to the value of TTD$450. |
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Department of Legal Aid and Advisory Authority For those who are seeking legal aid
or advice, the Department of Legal Aid
and Advisory Authority (part of Ministry of Legal Affairs) provides these
services to persons of small or moderate incomes throughout Trinidad &
Tobago. For information on the Couva office, see below. |
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The Boy Scouts has long been an organization indispensable in helping
communities around the world encourage leadership and accomplishment in
youth. Couva’s Boy Scouts includes both boys and girls who start out as Cubs
(ages 7-11 years), grow into Scouts (11-15 years), then Venture Scouts
(15-18 years) and finally become leaders themselves while making many
friends along the way. Weekly meetings are held at Carapichaima Roman
Catholic School on Saturdays, and each month there are new adventures and
challenges such as hiking, camping, swimming, boating and much more. There
are also amazing travel opportunities for kids who sign up for the Boy
Scouts Marching Band, a performance group that is sponsored by the United
Nations as part of T&T’s Poverty Reduction Program. |
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This group works for improvement in the community of McBean by helping the
poor and initiating sports and cultural events for young people. The
committee encourages a healthy lifestyle and undertakes all promotion and
organization for several community events. These include the annual Sports
and Families Day on September 24th (also Republic Day), the Village Olympics
between August and September, and the very popular five-kilometre Fun Run on
March 29th. Currently the committee is in talks with the Ministry of
Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs to bring health services
for the elderly to McBean. |
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The Caroni Folk Games is sponsored by the Ministry of Community Development,
Culture and Gender Affairs. All the community groups in the county gather
together to take part in the festivities, which feature a Marching Band
performance by the Boy Scouts. Games include the Wheelbarrow Race,
Three-legged Race and the Eating Race (contestants run 60 metres with their
hands tied but stop halfway to eat a watermelon before racing to the finish
line). |
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There is a very dangerous disease
called AIDS, which stands for Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome. This disease makes it hard for your body to
fight against infections large or small because it kills the blood cells
that protect you from them. AIDS is caused by the virus known as HIV (Human
Immunodeficiency Virus). HIV is most commonly transmitted through
unprotected sexual contact with an infected person, sharing needles with an
infected person, and through an infected mother to her child during birth or
shortly after birth while breastfeeding. If HIV is contracted, it does not
immediately mean that you have AIDS, but you are still at high risk. In 2003
it was determined that 26,000 adult men aged 15-49 were living with HIV/AIDS
in Trinidad & Tobago, while the number for women of the same age group was
15,000. Many have died of AIDS because there is no cure. |