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#EnContrasteVeracruz – Foro Juventudes por la Paz, en sus tres ediciones, reunió a más de mil 200 participantes.Córdoba, Ver.- La Secretaría Ejecutiva del Sistema y del Consejo Estatal de Seguridad Pública, en coordinación con el Instituto Veracruzano de la Juventud, llevó a cabo la tercera edición del foro Juventudes por la Paz, en el que participaron más de 400 asistentes provenientes de…

Inicia IVJ Reunión de Entidades Municipales de Juventud

Apoya capacitación para tutores del programa “Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro”

Las políticas públicas deben garantizar que se favorezca a este sector

Xalapa, Ver.- Con la finalidad de apoyar los programas implementados por los gobiernos Federal y Estatal, como es el de “Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro”, el Instituto Veracruzano de la Juventud (IVJ) inició la Reunión de Entidades Municipales de…

Section IV-J Adviser: Pilar Saturnino

(Houses at the foot of Soufriére Hills Volcano in Monserrat)

I’m really enjoying being here. It’s just a pity my family isn’t here with me. Saturday 6 July was a busy day. First I went with Ravo to KJB radio where she was being interviewed about the Summer Holiday Rocks event that she and Erika had organized. This was an opportunity for me to talk publicly about IVJ. I didn’t know until I got there that this was going to be live, which is probably a good thing because I wasn’t nervous at all.

The afternoon was spent watching cricket, Antigua V Montserrat. That was my first experience of a live professional cricket match. There wasn’t a huge crowd but enough to create a good atmosphere. Montserrat weren’t playing so good, they were fielding and kept dropping some easy balls. It was funny watching some of the crowd getting frustrated.

Later that night we went to a party at the Cultural Centre. It was supposed to start at 10pm but it didn’t, it was about midnight before anything happened. Anyway as the night went on things started to bubble, there was a nice atmosphere and the people were friendly. I didn’t see people standing around with vexed faces or giving people dirty looks. Sad to say this is what happens in the UK. Black people seem to have forgotten how to enjoy themselves and each other. Well that was my first proper night out in Montserrat and I didn’t get home until 4am.

I’ve spent a couple of days with Mappi, the head gardener of the National Trust. I was planting flowers, doing some cuttings and pruning the roses. Mappi talked a little about medicinal plants, but I will learn about those properly another time because there is so much to take in.