Students get a Fresh Start

Free grooming services and school essentials were provided to students on Sunday as the Division of Youth Affairs’ Fresh Start initiative helped prepare them for Monday’s return to the classroom.

The initiative began at 10 am and continued until 4 pm at 10 locations around the island, including Cuthbert Moore Primary School in St George, where Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office with responsibility for Youth and Culture Senator Shane Archer said the programme was about helping young people return to school feeling confident.

“We couldn’t do it at every community centre, every parish… Essentially, what we wanted to do was to give the young people across the island… that confidence, that freshness going back up to school,” he said.