{"id":21048,"date":"2024-07-02T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21048"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:17:23","slug":"hope-justice-center-raises-awareness-in-lusignan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/hope-justice-center-raises-awareness-in-lusignan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope &amp; Justice Center Raises Awareness in Lusignan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>on Friday, the Hope and Justice Center in Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, hosted an open day to increase awareness about its services and to remind the public of its availability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The center, which serves approximately 30 individuals daily, focuses significantly on cases related to domestic violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Cona Husbands, Manager of the Sexual Offences Unit at the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, highlighted that over 50% of the cases handled by the center are related to domestic violence since its inception. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She emphasized that the center&#8217;s establishment stemmed from ongoing efforts by the ministry to combat intimate partner violence in Guyana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The center aims to consolidate various services to support survivors of abuse, providing legal aid, counseling, and a safe space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It operates Monday to Friday from 8 AM to 4 PM, catering to residents from Industry to Mahaica on the East Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those needing assistance or reporting abuse, the center encourages using the 912 Hotline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on Friday, the Hope and Justice Center in Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, hosted an open day to increase awareness about its services and to remind the public of its availability.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21048","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=21048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21050,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21048\/revisions\/21050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}