The Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee part­nered with the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly to host the To­ba­go leg of the Olympic Youth Camp from Ju­ly 8-13 at the Shaw Park con­fer­ence room.

The camp pro­mot­ed the "Spir­it of Olymp­ism" by de­liv­er­ing mod­ules in­cor­po­rat­ing sport, cul­ture and ed­u­ca­tion. The theme for 2013 "Mold­ing So­cial­ly Re­spon­si­ble Ath­letes" aimed to cre­ate a cul­ture of com­mu­ni­ty in­volve­ment amongst our na­tion's ath­letes.

TTOC's stake­hold­ers de­liv­ered pre­sen­ta­tions on Olymp­ism, Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, So­cial Re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and Con­flict Res­o­lu­tion. Danc­ing, singing, art and sport were al­so part of the week's pro­ceed­ings.

The camp con­clud­ed on Ju­ly 13 at the Di­vi­sion of Sport's con­fer­ence room, Shaw Park. Present at the clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny were An­nette Knott, gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the TTOC, Al­li­son Al­leyne and Sheri­dan Kirk, sport of­fi­cers at the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly, par­ents and camp co­or­di­na­tors.

Proud par­ents were mes­merised by the campers singing and danc­ing the To­ba­go jig.

More im­por­tant­ly their pre­sen­ta­tions on the Olympic val­ues and so­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty em­pha­sized the dif­fer­ence young per­sons were will­ing to make on is­sues af­fect­ing them.

They came up with sev­er­al nov­el ideas to im­pact their com­mu­ni­ties; plans are un­der­way to stage a walkathon to raise aware­ness on vi­o­lence and bul­ly­ing, and pro­mote a "speech band" on sex­u­al ed­u­ca­tion.

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