{"id":18454,"date":"2024-04-12T02:54:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T02:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=18454"},"modified":"2024-04-12T02:54:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T02:54:31","slug":"ministry-of-amerindian-affairs-signs-mou-with-global-affairs-canada-for-youth-empowerment-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/ministry-of-amerindian-affairs-signs-mou-with-global-affairs-canada-for-youth-empowerment-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Amerindian Affairs Signs MOU with Global Affairs Canada for Youth Empowerment Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Saskia Warrick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs and Global Affairs Canada for the five-year Empowering the Next Generation Agency and Gender Equality Project aims to empower Indigenous youth, particularly women, in Regions One, Seven, Eight, and Nine through life-skills education, applied training, and grant support in areas such as employability, livelihood, business development, and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative aligns with the government&#8217;s commitment to improving the social and economic well-being of Indigenous peoples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai, emphasized that the development of Amerindian communities and youth remains a priority for the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canadian High Commissioner Mark Berman highlighted that the program is aligned with climate-resilient courses, emphasizing its importance in addressing climate change challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project, costing 9.1 million Canadian dollars, will be implemented with the assistance of the World University Service of Canada (WUSC). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was introduced to the ministry in 2022 during meetings with WUSC and the Government of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia Warrick The recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs and Global Affairs Canada for the five-year Empowering the Next Generation Agency&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18456,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18454\/revisions\/18456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}