Halo Foundation Generation Y hosts students for Youth Empowerment Retreat

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The Halo Foundation Generation Y, the youth arm of the Halo Foundation, hosted FUTURE PROOF — an empowerment retreat — on the lawns of Government House on January 19.

The participants included secondary students from both public and private schools across Antigua and Barbuda. The speakers included President of the Senate Alincia Williams-Grant, the President of the Antigua and Barbuda Red Cross Michael Joseph, the President of Halo Generation Y Brent Scotland, along with Dr. Donovan Thomas and Mrs. Faith Thomas from Choose Life International in Jamaica.

According to Scotland, the event was launched to “prepare the young people of Antigua and Barbuda for the future. The year 2017 saw an increase in the number of teenage suicides and as a youth organization, the members of Halo Generation Y felt compelled to provide some measure of help.”

The facilitators – Dr. Donovan and Mrs. Thomas – spoke on various topics, including stress management techniques, character building principles, and confronting anti-suicidal tendencies.

During her motivational speech, Senator Williams-Grant urged the students not to let fear consume them, take over their life or cripple their development, but to be bold and brave when embracing it.

 Joseph noted that in order to succeed in life the young people would need to make sacrifices.

 “Anything you want, you will have to work 10 times as hard for, and fail 9 times at achieving. This is the reality of life,” he told the students.

Sponsorship was provided by LAVA International, ECAB, Starfish Jolly Beach Resorts, George “Wooden Foot” Browne, Zero Degrees and Marlon Hunte, Paddy and Jack Prendergast, Crab Hole Liquors and Anjo Wholesale.

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