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Parenting for Peace and Protection - A Stingray Workshop for July 2010
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(The Valley, Anguilla) - Parenting for Peace and Protection is the theme of the
2010 Stingray Parenting Education and Support Programme which will be held from
July 8 - 13.  The programme comprises three evening workshops with day time
consultations available to parents for one-on-one discussion.  Later in the year
three additional workshops will be offered to the island’s Parent-Teacher
Associations for delivery in different communities.
This year’s programme is being supported by the Fellowship of the Least Coin,
a global ecumenical women’s prayer movement committed to praying for justice,
peace and reconciliation.  As women pray for justice, peace and reconciliation,
they set aside the least coin in their own currency that is gathered to support
praying women all over the world.
The focus of the 2010 Parenting Education and Support programme will be on
empowering mothers to protect their children against sexual abuse and helping
parents to inculcate the value of peace.  The programme coordinator, Ijahnya
Christian is a certified parenting education facilitator and co-facilitator will
be Yasus Afari, peace advocate and Ambassador to the Council of the Parliament
of the World’s Religions.
The workshops are organized annually as part of the Anguilla Stingray Programme
run by Triple Crown Culture Yard and Bankie Banx of Rodney House at the Dune
Preserve.  The programme uses music as a non-threatening means of engaging
children’s creativity and making appropriate interventions for their
protection and development.  Enhancing skills for parenting in 21st Century has
been identified as a priority area of intervention.