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Logwood celebrates Child Month

Published:Saturday | May 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM
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Public health nurse Jillian Cleary (second right) assists five-year-old Dwayne DePass to cut the Child Month cake during a community-outreach activity in recognition of Child Month at the Logwood Health Centre in Hanover on Monday.
Ten-year-old Jade Levy of Green Island Primary School performs a dub poem, 'Hear The Children's Cry', during an outreach activity marking Child Month at the Logwood Health Centre in Hanover on Monday.
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Claudia Gardner, Assignment Coordinator

WESTERN BUREAU:

Children and parents of Logwood and surrounding communities in Hanover were fêted at a Child Month Commemoration activity hosted by the staff of the Logwood Health Centre on Monday.

The event, held at the health centre, was staged under the theme 'Children's Care and Protection: Fi Wi Business'.

According to public health nurse Jillian Cleary, the event was being staged for the first time to commemorate Child Month.

"We felt that because it was Child Month, it would be good to stage this event to show appreciation to the children and give information to the parents because there is some basic information that we are not able to give them, really, due to time constraints," Cleary said.

She said the event was one of two planned for the two health centres managed by her, with the other being scheduled to take place at Grange Health Centre next Wednesday.

EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS

"Even though we give the parents information on health topics during our regular education sessions at the clinics, we are not able to dedicate a lot of time to the topics which the presenters spoke on today, and so we thought it was a good idea to incorporate these two topics - character building and the prevention of child abuse - as well as give the children some tokens and provide refreshments," she said.

In his address, the Child Development Agency's parish officer for Hanover, Eric Vassell, beseeched parents to be careful about the manner in which they speak to their children.

"Most times, when you see persons come up in life and do not care about anything, it is because of how they were verbally abused as children by their parents," he said.

"You hear the Bible say, 'There is power in the tongue and in the tongue there is both life and death.' Be careful what you say about the future of your children because your child might just turn out to be that which you predicted," he said.

Sponsors of the event included the Lucea branch of Scotiabank and the Rhodes Hall Plantation.

Photos by Claudia Gardner