For years Kamlawattie Harrilall, 36, her husband and four children eked out a living in a single room mud floor apartment in the bottom flat of an Enmore house.They cooked their food on a fireside in the yard, which was also where they emptied their stomachs.Mosquitoes,China Jerseys Cheap, rats and roaches shared their modest dwelling, and although she applied for and was granted a house lot, Harrilall’s family was in no position to erect even a small house to take them out of their miserable existence.Harilall’s husband worked in the sugar industry and his meager wage, which was sometimes supplemented by the sporadic small piece from Harrilall’s work as a domestic, was just enough to provide the family with food and to ensure that the children attend school at the Enmore Primary, regularly.Pandit Sugrim with Harrilall (right) and two of her children in front of the place they presently call home. But hope did not elude the housewife, who searched desperately for a way to lift herself and family from abject poverty.And the hope soon turned into faith and the faith, into reality as the New Jersey Arya Samaj Humanitarian Mission, which has a Guyana chapter, made her dreams come through.The organization, through the efforts of Pandit Suresh Sugrim,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, has commenced building a three-bedroom house for Harrilall and her family in the Haslington New Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara.She said that for five years she was trying to build her home, enduring promises after promises.Her perseverance paid off when four years ago, she met a woman by the name of Dhanranie Dan, whom she told of her plight.The woman listened and pledged to find help to build a house for Harrilall and her family.Initially Food for the Poor was approached and Harrilall was placed on a waiting list.“She try, she write letters, she send me in (to Food for the Poor). I go, I try very hard. They tell me next year, next month, this month and the other month,” Harrilall said in an interview last week.But although officials from that agency inspected her place and promised to assist her, she was made to wait for several years.Then last year, she met Dhanranie Dan again and this time she was told about the Arya Samaj organization. Harrilall’s hopes again soared.The woman went ahead and made representation for Harrilall and within months, arrangements were put in place.Harrilall’s present dwelling was visited and Dan became so overwhelmed that she immediately doubled her efforts to assist.The Arya Samaj was contacted and the motion to build Harrilall’s house was put in train.“Pandit Sugrim, he come and he see de place where I living and he say he going back and raise funds for me,Wholesale Basketball Jerseys,” Harrilall told this newspaper.She said that when Pandit Sugrim made the pledge she was sure that he would have made good on it and she would not have to wait in vain.But the house was not coming absolutely free; the arrangement was that Harrilall would repay $10,Wholesale NFL Jerseys,000 per month, which she gladly agreed to do.“That’s fair,” she said. “I am proud of the Arya Samaj,” she added. Her next step is to start buying some furniture, since her previous dwelling could not accommodate “these luxuries”.“I don’t have a TV, I don’t have chairs but my children are very proud because then gon own dem own home. Me husband very glad too,” she added.Speaking with the media at the site of Harrilall’s new house, Pandit Sugrim explained that the Arya Samaj’s latest gesture is just a continuation of the work it has been doing to help people to emerge from the fangs of poverty.The organization has been working in Guyana since 2005 and has spent millions of dollars assisting persons throughout Guyana.However, this time it’s more about empowerment.“As of 2010/2011 we talk about empowerment and education, and the only way we can break the cycle of poverty in this nation is through the power of education…we try to help families who are willing to help themselves,” Pandit Sugrim stated.He said that in this particular case, he was overwhelmed by the poverty level in which the family was living.“I have travelled to so many countries internationally, and the thing about this family is that they are living below the poverty level but they have the vision of educating their children, which is the key to the success. These children go to school every single day, regardless of the poverty,” Pandit Sugrim said.He said that the reason for having the family pay back for the house interest-free,Wholesale Jerseys, is to empower them by giving them the scope to work, to earn and to have and feel a sense of ownership.“Sometimes when you tend to give everything free, people do not

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It was a big night for local media practitioners when United Nations Guyana held its first ever media awards in recognition of the media’s role in keeping developmental issues on the agenda.The event, which was held on Saturday evening at the Georgetown Club, coincided with the UN’s 70th anniversary.About a dozen local media workers received awards for their stellar coverage of the developmental work of UN agencies, funds,China Jerseys Authentic, and programmes in Guyana. Prizes were up for grabs on 11 social issues: HIV and AIDS; human rights; food and nutrition security;? involvement of youth and women in agriculture; health; child protection; youth and adolescent development and participation; sexual and reproductive health; adolescents and youths; the environment; and poverty and governance.Additionally, the competition was open to all sections of the media – print,Cheap Jerseys, radio, television and even online.The print media copped the majority of the prizes on Saturday. Amongst the winners was Kaieteur News reporter Desilon Daniels for the print media poverty and governance category; Stabroek News reporters, Gaulbert Sutherland (print – human rights), Roger Wong (print media – food and nutrition security), Sharda Bacchus (print media – child protection), and Thandeka Percival (online media – food and nutrition security). Guyana Chronicle reporter, Tajeram Mohabir, also copped two prizes (print media – health and involvement of youth and women in agriculture).There were also honourable mention awardees: Kaieteur News reporters Desilon Daniels and Sharmain Granger copped mentions in the print media section for the sexual and reproductive health and HIV and AIDS categories respectively, while former KN reporter Nicholas Peters,jerseys cheap nfl, received a mention in the youth and adolescent development and participation category. Other honourable mentions included Tamara Rodney of Demerara Waves, Ravin Singh of the Guyana Chronicle and Zoisa Fraser of Stabroek News.The majority of winners for the UN Guyana Media Awards 2015 with President David Granger and UN Resident Coordinator Khadijah MusaSutherland was also awarded the top prize for the most submissions of a consistently high nature while Stabroek News copped the award for the media house with the most entries.During her remarks, Chief Judge, Paloma Mohamed,Cheap Jerseys, explained that the awards were based on the premise that the promotion of the development works of UN through the media is necessary in raising the public profile of the organisation.“The success of such an awards programme is best exemplified by the quality and frequency of coverage of developmental information in the media. As primary functionaries of information dissemination, all media workers and journalists have a huge responsibility to analyse situations and to keep developmental concerns on the national agenda.”In explaining the criteria for the awards, she said that overall areas were common to all of the different sections. These areas were factuality, balance and accuracy, analysis, overall impact and style. The judges also used a grading scale to determine the level of prizes awarded. Entries falling under the 50 points were deemed below average; those from 51 to 60 points were deemed fair, while those from 61 to 70 were considered above average. Entries ranging from 71 to 80 points were considered very good while entries above 80 points were deemed excellent. The judges decided that only entries of the highest quality would be awarded the full prize.“The rationale for this was that any entry scoring an average of 71 and above – very good to excellent – would be deserving of the full prize,” she said. She said any score below 71 points but above 50 points could be considered honourable mentions.Judging occurred from October 11 to October 15 and involved four judges. Besides Mohamed, the judges were veteran journalist and Demerara Waves founder, Denis Chabrol; Deputy Programme Director of Communications at CARICOM,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, Volderine Hackett; and University of Guyana Communications Studies lecturer, Terrence Esseboom.In total, there were 45 entries: 22 of these were from the print media, 12 from radio, three from television, and eight from online. Unfortunately, she said, the radio and television entries were not included in the competition since these entries did not meet even the relaxed criteria.“Stories submitted were generally poignant and strong,” Mohamed said,Wholesale Jerseys, before continuing, “In the words of judge Volderine Hackett, they called attention to some social ills in far-flung places such as in ‘Welcome t

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