YTEPP Lim­it­ed is part­ner­ing with Pen­ny­wise Cos­met­ics Lim­it­ed to de­liv­er train­ing in On­line Fa­cil­i­ta­tion to 60 Spe­cial Needs Teach­ers, un­der the Pri­vate Spe­cial Schools As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (PSSATT).

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from YTEPP, the goal is to en­hance the qual­i­ty of on­line learn­ing for youth with spe­cial needs, by up­skilling teach­ers in the ef­fec­tive use of tech­nol­o­gy plat­forms to en­hance the on­line learn­ing of spe­cial needs youth across the coun­try. 

On Mon­day 26th Ju­ly 2021, a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing was signed be­tween YTEPP Lim­it­ed, Pen­ny­wise Cos­met­ics Lim­it­ed and the Pri­vate Spe­cial Schools As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go for a part­ner­ship that would see teach­ers ben­e­fit­ing from a $15,000 do­na­tion from Pen­ny­wise for YTEPP’s train­ing pro­gramme “On­line Fa­cil­i­ta­tion”. 

“Pen­ny­wise’s goal is to pos­i­tive­ly im­pact com­mu­ni­ties across the coun­try and part­ner­ing with YTEPP is in keep­ing with achiev­ing this goal,” said Satyam Paladee, one of the Di­rec­tors of Pen­ny­wise Cos­met­ics Lim­it­ed, at the sign­ing of the MoU.

Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of YTEPP, Nigel Par­ris, hailed the gen­eros­i­ty and al­tru­is­tic na­ture of Pen­ny­wise and ex­pressed his grat­i­tude for the con­fi­dence the com­pa­ny had in YTEPP’s thrust to­wards youth with spe­cial needs.

“We are able to adapt to an ever-chang­ing en­vi­ron­ment to meet the needs of youth and we con­tin­ue our thrust in form­ing key part­ner­ships to as­sist us in youth de­vel­op­ment, com­mu­ni­ty by com­mu­ni­ty,” Par­ris not­ed.

Al­so present for the MoU sign­ing was Ms. Tho­ra Best, Chair­man of the Board of Di­rec­tors of YTEPP Lim­it­ed and Ms. Phillis Grif­fith, Pres­i­dent of the Pri­vate Spe­cial Schools As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go.