Several disadvantaged young men and women are being given an opportunity to learn agricultural skills through the Emancipation Support Committee of Trinidad and Tobago’s African Heritage Agricultural Centre Youth Project.

Executive Board Member of the Committee, Dr Asha Kambon, said ten youngsters, aged 16 to 22, participated in Cycle 1 of the nine-week programme, and all of them successfully graduated.

“Designed to empower young people through three things: agricultural training, personal development, and cultural grounding. We were very concerned that a lot of the young people who seem to find themselves drifting, drifting, are our children who have lost the cultural grounding because communities and families have lost the cultural grounding.”