TTASPE NEWS
Jump Rope for Heart Festival skips off at North Eastern College Grounds;
TTASPE is promoting healthy lifestyle habits amongst primary school aged students by holding a Jump Rope for Heart Festival at North Eastern College grounds Sangre Grande on February 19. The aim of the festival is to provide primary school students within the North Eastern Educational District the opportunity to come together, to share and learn some of the different jump rope skills in a non-competitive environment while promoting healthy lifestyle habits.
The festival is a deliberate attempt to get children to be physically active by participating in simple activities and at the same time create awareness of the importance of health and fitness in their daily lives. Approximately 375 students from 24 primary schools will be participating at the festival.
TTASPE represented at MTV/UNICEF Staying Alive Behavior Change Workshop.
As a part of MTV/UNICEF Staying Alive Campaign in the Caribbean, members of TTASPE, Shaunna Thomas, Ato Rockcliffe and Atiba Antoine were invited to participate in behavior change communication workshop training. This pilot training session held on the 18th to 20th January, 2010 was called the Staying Alive in Box training. The training sessions focused on getting definitive feedback on the design of the Staying Alive peer educator manual and defining the methodology for using the box effectively which will include material from UNICEF and MTV.
EDASCS HOLDS ELECTIONS
Capacity building high on the agenda for new EDACSC Executives
Saturday 17th October, 2009 marked the election and inauguration of a new Executive Committee for the community based organization EDACSC in Speyside Tobago. The elections were chaired by Ms. Carol Davidson, THA Youth Division Officer, and TTASPE supported the event functioning as technical secretariat. The spirit of cooperation between the members of EDACSC was outstanding and this helped the elections to be free and fair.
The highlight of the elections however, was theappointment of young persons and adolescents to positions of immense responsibility. The group decided to create the new post of Public Relations Officer to support the clubs’ effort to make its mission known and a young woman elected to the position.• More
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 09, 2009; CASTRIES, Saint Lucia
There was a lot of excitement in St Lucia as they hosted the biggest Jump Rope For Heart festival with 40 schools participating at the Vigie Sports Complex.
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T&T PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE MAKES HISTORY!
On Saturday November 21st 2009 history was made for Trinidad & Tobago as the Trinidad & Tobago Paralympic Committee (TTPC) was ratified as an official International Paralympic Committee (IPC) member. This took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at the IPC’s Conference and General Assembly, November 19-22, 2009. The TTPC had two delegates attend this conference, Michael Fraser, President and Jennifer Wong of TTASPE as Technical Advisor. More
ST. MADELINE SECONDARY GETS INTO ACTION WITH KICKING AIDS OUT
There was a positive response from St. Madeline Secondary School when a request was made by TTASPE to introduce the Kicking AIDS Out program to students of the school as part of TTASPE’s effort to integrate the program into secondary schools within the region.
Two Form Two Physical Education classes were selected to participate in the sessions, which took place on Novemeber 12th at the school compound, and saw a total of 50 students participating in the sessions.
Students of St Madeline in a Kicking AIDS Out session
TTASPE - A PART OF ART WEEK AT SPEYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL, TOBAGO
TTASPE’s Communications Officer, along with colleagues of UNICEF Youth Media, were recently invited to share in the art experience at Speyside High School. TTASPE was expected to host a video creation and sound technology workshop, and at the end of the week, produce videos of positive youth messages – including HIV/AIDS awareness and education and healthy life-style messages.
Students of Speyside High in video workshopk
ICES CONFERENCE AT CASCADIA!
From October 27th to the 30th UK Sport visited Trinidad where an ICES workshop was held at Cascadia Hotel and Conference centre with delegates from around the region. Attendees included representatives from the Ministry of Sport – St Lucia, Ministry of Education – St Vincent and the Grenadines, Ministry of Education – Grenada, as well as from various sporting organisations in Trinidad and Tobago.More
ICES delegates discussing coaching strategies
UTT STUDENTS IMPLEMENT KICKING AIDS OUT AT VACATION CAMPS
HIV/AIDS affects over 260, 000 persons in the Caribbean and is the leading cause of deaths in some Caribbean countries, this coupled with a growing trend of explicitly sexually-charged media, makes it imperative that younger and younger children along with adolescents and young adults, have access to relevant and up to date information concerning the sensitive issue of HIV/AIDS.
The case is even more severe in the African region where the Kicking Aids Out (KAO) network was formed. The KAO program uses sport as a tool to help educate youth about HIV/AIDS, and since its inception in 2001 it has grown steadily and as the network grew so did the goal, and the focus changed from not only sharing much needed information, but also to train young people so that they could take the message back to their peers... More
