An­ge­lo Mar­celle

It was a glo­ri­ous day for some 65 chil­dren of Spring Vil­lage in Val­sayn, when they grad­u­at­ed from a sum­mer camp host­ed by CUBS (Courage, Bold­ness, Un­touch­able, Strength) on Au­gust 21.

Among the grad­u­ants was the son of Chair­man of the Tu­na­puna Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, Khadi­jah Ameen. The six-week camp ac­tiv­i­ties in­clud­ed hik­ing, ex­cur­sions, din­ners, swim­ming, arts and craft, and so­cial graces–all catered to the holis­tic de­vel­op­ment of the ju­ve­nile par­tic­i­pants.

The wel­come ad­dress was giv­en by sev­en-year-old An­gali Seep­aul, who lat­er ren­dered an orig­i­nal ca­lyp­so dit­ty. Se­le­na Ho­sein got the ap­proval of her peers, as she per­formed her ver­sion of the Wa­ka Wa­ka dance, and, much to the de­light of all in at­ten­dance, lit­tle Han­na Har­ry­lal de­liv­ered two se­lec­tions on the na­tion­al in­stru­ment. There were al­so sev­er­al in­spir­ing skits by se­nior Cubs mem­bers.

Over the next three months the group will be en­gag­ing in a needs as­sess­ment re­search strat­e­gy, fol­lowed by a fo­rum en­ti­tled Youth Voic­es.