What's happening at
The George Price Centre for Peace and Development
(scroll down for events coming up...)
This year, no less than 185 children are enlisted for a variety of summer programmes at the Centre: theatre, reading, chess, dance, creative writing and steel pan music..
Throughout the course of the past two weeks, 55 little bundles-of-joy worked on their reading skills. Boring you think? Not so! The kids hopped from station to station where they read amazing stories, got to do related art projects, participated in spelling quizzes and comprehension games. The whole idea was to prove to them once and for all that reading can be F-U-N! From all we can gather, we can safely say: "Mission Accomplished". The volunteer teachers from Our Lady of Guadalupe High School did fantastic. Thanks very much to all of them for giving back to their community in this way!
Also this week, 20 kids got an introduction in the game of chess. Before we knew it, conversation in break-time included excitement about pawns, knights, kings and queens... Thanks very much to Teacher David Coombs and his volunteers for sparking so much enthusiasm in the kids for this strategic game!
- August 1 and 2: Youth Theater "Starlight" (7.00 p.m. and 4.00 p.m.)
- August 4: "How to avoid burnout in your job" - Presentation by Emil Pulido (7 p.m.)
- August 6 and 7: (Tentative dates): Workshop Conflict Resolution
- August 8: Joyce Wang Piano Recital (4.30 p.m.)
- September 1: Opening of photo exhibit "Belize: 10 Years of Culture and Change" by Noel Escalante
- September 2: Annual General Meeting of the Belmopan International Women's Group (12.00 noon)
- September 5: Rotary's Annual Wine and Cheese evening (7.00 p.m.)
- September 9, 16 and 23: Movie series "Peace Makers" (7.00 p.m.)
- November 13: "What were you wearing when the ship went down" - Belmopan International Women's Group annual dinner/dance.
Look out for details on these and other activities in our upcoming newsletter.
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