Sankofa Foundation, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago 2010 (SFRTT)
To Serve with Passion and Sensitivity Those Who Seek Liberation From Oppressive Family Life Issues
Sankofa Fundation For Love of God and Life
Grace and peace to all of you this great day
This is just to share with you the availability of Sankofa Foundation for Victims of Domestic Violence and Networking Counseling Programme.
Counseling is offered free of charge with one goal, that perpetrators and victims using the services will experience healing and liberation.
One can access the website via Google at: www.sankofatuzinde.com
Contact for appointments or any other engagement with the foundation: 1-868-365-4984, grandifrancis2001@yahoo.com
Note: Together we can contribute to making our world a better place
Current engagements:
1. Free Counseling and home visitation by appointment
2. Free Subject Lessons to three children via home visitation
3. Reflection writings for the foundation’s website,
“Life Giving Blog”
4. Developing estate for the foundation’s agricultural project
5. Networking with other NGOs and other interest groups
Material contribution given in view of long term goal to educate and liberate:
Financial cost of the foundation’s website address and registration cost with the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Ongoing financial support to assist victims when such is needed and to help keep students in school
Donated desk top computer to two students at the primary school level (it is hoped that this idea can be sustained and grow)
Give $100.00 each to two students who were successful at the SEA Exams for the purpose of starting a Unit Trust or Credit Union Fix Deposit Savings (it is hoped that this idea can be sustained and grow)
Secure cost for purchase and development of estate (Legal cost to process the purchase was sponsored by well-wisher)
It is the foundation’s desire with effort to become self sufficient in order to develop and expand its services on all levels and to all.
Sankofa Tuzinde (Michael Francis Grandison) BA Theology, MSc Gender and Development (current)
TwentyFive years experience in counseling
Thirty years teaching experience in a wide range of contexts (Servol, YTEPP, RC Catechetics, Providence Girls' Roman Catholic Secondary School, Matelot Community College Evening Lessons, UWI)
Thirty Five years of designing and implementing projects and small business ventures
All Services have been and continues to be provided free of charge to the public, home and abroad
Serving All At God’s Loving Command
God Bless
Sankofa Fundation For Love of God and Life
Grace and peace to all of you this great day
This is just to share with you the availability of Sankofa Foundation for Victims of Domestic Violence and Networking Counseling Programme.
Counseling is offered free of charge with one goal, that perpetrators and victims using the services will experience healing and liberation.
One can access the website via Google at: www.sankofatuzinde.com
Contact for appointments or any other engagement with the foundation: 1-868-365-4984, grandifrancis2001@yahoo.com
Note: Together we can contribute to making our world a better place
Current engagements:
1. Free Counseling and home visitation by appointment
2. Free Subject Lessons to three children via home visitation
3. Reflection writings for the foundation’s website,
“Life Giving Blog”
4. Developing estate for the foundation’s agricultural project
5. Networking with other NGOs and other interest groups
Material contribution given in view of long term goal to educate and liberate:
Financial cost of the foundation’s website address and registration cost with the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Ongoing financial support to assist victims when such is needed and to help keep students in school
Donated desk top computer to two students at the primary school level (it is hoped that this idea can be sustained and grow)
Give $100.00 each to two students who were successful at the SEA Exams for the purpose of starting a Unit Trust or Credit Union Fix Deposit Savings (it is hoped that this idea can be sustained and grow)
Secure cost for purchase and development of estate (Legal cost to process the purchase was sponsored by well-wisher)
It is the foundation’s desire with effort to become self sufficient in order to develop and expand its services on all levels and to all.
Sankofa Tuzinde (Michael Francis Grandison) BA Theology, MSc Gender and Development (current)
TwentyFive years experience in counseling
Thirty years teaching experience in a wide range of contexts (Servol, YTEPP, RC Catechetics, Providence Girls' Roman Catholic Secondary School, Matelot Community College Evening Lessons, UWI)
Thirty Five years of designing and implementing projects and small business ventures
All Services have been and continues to be provided free of charge to the public, home and abroad
Serving All At God’s Loving Command
God Bless
International Women's Month March 2011
International Women’s Day March 8th 2011
Recently I saw a film on how Caribbean women see themselves by Jada Lee Condappa-Lewis. Her film presentation was entitled, Other Angels. I am not sure how one can access this film. However, Stacy Parris’ poem echoes the sentiments of Other Angels[i] Ironically many parts of the world are celebrating carnival. A major preparation many women attempt is to bend their bodies into stereotypical standards so as to pass the gaze of many hungry eyes on the carnival auction blocks. Many factors may contribute to this need to conform to gender roles expectations. Unfortunately, many women also fall victims to these gender roles demands. Yes we have many women who have broken many glass ceilings in their way. Many women have excelled beyond compare and patriarchal expectations yet still many more are victims of all kinds of gender abuse and violence. What are we celebrating this day of International Women’s Day? Hear the concerns expressed by a student of UWI[ii]Amilcar Presi Sanatan
100 Years of International Women's Day :) equally both women and men should celebrate this occasion. Together, we must work to bring about pragmatic and systematic implementation of national women empowerment programmes. Also, as a man, this is a call for an end to our discriminatory attitudes that may subjugate women, from the way we interact with each other physically and understand person’s sense of space, to co-operation in the work places, societal expectations, all the way to inclusive language.[iii] Therefore let this celebration of International Women’s Day drew us closer as one human family where the concerns of one will be the concerns of all. Let us see this day as a day for all of us to reflect and celebrate. While there is good reason to celebrate, the fact that one woman is still being beaten, or raped, over worked and under paid, denied certain rights, killed, etc., is a serious cause for reflection and transformation through the efforts of both men and women. Only then will our cause for marking this celebration will be complete. Please do have a reflective International Women’s Day and work in your own little corner to transform gender attitudes. we interact with eachother physically and understand persons sense of space, to co-operation in the work places, societal expectations, all the way to inclusive language.
This song is for the woman who has sacrificed to give birth to every possiblity of my life and generations of my lineage to come. I love you mummy - in High Tide or Low Tide. [i] Parris, Stacy, pheonixlyrisis300, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqFPvG-OiE8&feature=player_embedded, [Copied 8th march 2011 youtube online]
[ii]The University of the West Indies St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago
[iii]http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150426057200608&id=839535607#!/, [Copied 8th March 2011, Face Book on line]
