"Creating the right Balance for Change"
About Ms. Scott
As the CEO of Volunteer Youth Corps Inc. (VYC), Goldie Scott continues to lead VYC to many successes. In her role, Scott exhibits strategic Planning; she demonstrates tact diplomacy and responsibility when interacting when interacting with colleagues, management personnel, staff, volunteers, international donor agencies and government, private sector and counterpart organisations. Simply put, Scott believes in youth and volunteerism; volunteerism as a means of reaching and empowering the less fortunate and disadvantaged – Scott’s vigorous and innovative fight to seek financial assistance for hospitalized persons needing treatment overseas and successfully executing the international program Big Brothers Big Sisters for the continent of South America are examples of that.
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About Mrs. Williams
Mrs. Gail Williams is a 37 year old, mother of one. She has a strong background in household management and home economics. As a former sewing tutor for the campbellvile community center, she interfaced with a variety of women and young girls and assisted in their livelihoods’ in learning to construct garment for income or as skill.
About Mr. Chisholm
With the aspiration of becoming a Youth Leader, Advocate and an icon for positive change, 22yr old Korey Anthony Chisholm sees himself as a global individual fully capable of forming solutions to global issues. He is a very sociable and loving individual who is extremely devoted to the effective and consistent development of young people. His aim is to efficiently and thoroughly impact the minds of young people, enabling them to see themselves as catalysts, to create significant change within their lives, homes, countries and by extension the world and thus activate and birth the talents, gifts and resources they naturally possess. Korey has been in the field of youth advocacy, HIV programming and management for the six years with the various civil society organisations in Guyana and is very zealous about community mobilization, governance, HIV, sexual and reproductive health, human rights and gender issues amongst young people and the gender and sexual minority communities.
Korey hold CXC passes in Home Economics, an award for global youth service (2006) and outstanding peer education and voluntary work (2005). His many achievements comes from his enthusiasm and love for volunteerism in youth and community development and leadership. He is currently National UNV Volunteer – Community Youth Facilitator under the UNDP Enhanced Public Trust, Security and Inclusion attached to Volunteer Youth Corps Inc. (VYC) as the Program Support and Volunteer Officer.
He has been doing Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV and Human Rights peer educator & trainer and a facilitator with local civil society organizations in Guyana on issues around young people and the sexual and gender minority communities. He is experience developing and implementing projects for young people in, life skills, livelihoods’, governance, community mobilization and leadership. Korey received training in youth leadership & development, proposal writing and project management, appreciative inquiry, character building, governance, self-awareness & personal development, facilitation, identifying special educational needs, sexual and reproductive health, sexuality issues STI, HIV education and AIDS Competence, Community mobilization, Case navigation performing arts, script writing & design.
About Ms. Wintz
Jean has been working with youth and women in the areas of Job placement through our Job Bank service since 2009 and also in the areas of developing skills training programs. Her passion lies primarily in the empowerment of youth and women through the creation of skilled individuals who are capable of reaching their full potential.
A trained peer educator, Jean is keen on achieving VYC's goals through cooperation and innovation. She is creative and dedicated to the cause of helping our young people and can always be relied on to lend her assistance in any program area.
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Jennel Reid is a trained teacher with four years experience teaching in the primary level; a now National UNV Volunteer for UNDP’s EPTSI Project and a recent addition to the Volunteer Youth Corp Inc. team as the Program Officer of the Health Promotion, Education and Knowledge Development Department.
As the Program Officer of VYC’s Health Department and Community Youth Facilitator of UNDP’s EPTSI project, it is Jennel’s major responsibility to facilitate interactive health and peace education sessions in specially selected secondary schools utilizing VYC’s Sexual and Reproductive Health manual/guidelines and peace education materials. In an effort to reestablish VYC and return to some of the principles that form the foundation upon which this organization stands and has developed from - additional responsibilities include organizing and supervising volunteers in non-medical support outreaches to the Public Hospital and other geriatric and pediatric institutions.
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