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Youth Ambassadors For Positive Living 2015 Installed
By BIS
Apr 19, 2015 - 1:53:28 AM

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Youth Ambassadors for Positive Living 2015 speak at their installation ceremony at Government House, April 9. Minister of Education, Science and Technology the Hon. Jerome Fitzgerald (seated left) and Governor General Her Excellency Dame Marguerite Pindling look on. (BIS Photo/Kris Ingraham)

NASSAU, The Bahamas – Governor General Her Excellency Dame Marguerite Pindling congratulated some 50 high school students who successfully completed the peer education and leadership requirements to be installed as Youth Ambassadors for Positive Living 2015, April 9, in the Ballroom of Government House. Minister of Education, Science and Technology the Hon. Jerome Fitzgerald also congratulated the new ambassador positive role models.

Over 400 young Bahamians have been inducted as Young Ambassadors of the organization in areas of peer leadership, counselling, and mentoring – including going into the communities to speak to their peers on HIV/AIDS, drugs, child abuse and teenage pregnancy, steering them towards making good decisions.

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Youth Ambassadors and their supportive families. (BIS Photo/Kris Ingraham)

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Installation of the Youth Ambassadors. (BIS Photo/Kris Ingraham)


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