The Parika Facade CDC volunteers
Minister George Norton along with community leaders with schoolchildren who witnessed the watering of the first plant.
Minister George Norton along with community leaders with schoolchildren who witnessed the watering of the first plant.

VILLAGERS within the community of Parika and beyond formed what they called the Parika Façade Community Development (CDC) group, with a mission to develop the community by promoting self-involvement, self-improvement, self-confidence and social cohesion.

The CDC group, which is registered under the Ministry of Communities, has on register just over 75 members of young people, who have been making every effort to ensure that what they do have a positive and significant impact in the lives of the people they are reaching.

Some of the children who witnessed the tree-planting exercise.

The group has been wasting no time in encouraging members of the community to join with them in a number of activities, even as they have drawn up their calendar of activities, which started last year and would continue throughout this year.
So far, some of the activities included a community clean-up and tree planting exercise earlier this year. This activity began early in the morning and saw almost all of the residents participating in beautifying their community, with more than 50 trees being planted.

The Parika Facade CDC also collaborated with the Ministry of the Presidency, Department of Social Cohesion, Culture, Youth and Sport to bring Christmas joy to hundreds of children in the community. The event, which was was hosted at Barns Avenue, featured a cultural presentation full of performances that displayed Guyana’s rich culture and the symbolic lighting of a village tree that was planted by villagers, where hundreds of parents with their children came out in support.

The group, in highlighting these two projects, said that they have been constantly working and plan to do much more in the near future.

Acknowledging volunteerism
Volunteers of the Parika Facade CDC were recently acknowledged at a grand ceremony with the presentation of a bouquet of flowers, silver and gold medals and certificates of appreciation for the successes achieved by the group since its formation in May 2018.

“We, together, kept our community clean and tidy and it is now very much environmentally friendly, we together erected signs guiding our people, we formed a Community Policing Group, we hosted a tree planting exercise which was graced by the Honorable Dr. George Norton, we applied for a community internet hub and it was granted, we engaged Ministers Joseph Harmon and Annette Ferguson on electricity issues and now we can boast of 50 residents benefitting from electricity through a six months waiver we hosted many successful fundraisers and we continue to do well. We are a family here at Parika Facade and we enjoy the Government’s confidence in promoting love, unity and togetherness,” Chairman of the CDC, Sunil Oudit was recorded as telling the volunteers.

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