Mr. Vince lives in Prince George, Canada, but travels quite frequently to Guyana to see his work being done. He has an office in Belvedere, Albion, Berbice.
I'm very impress with the great work he, his foundation and team are involved in Guyana for our women folks and the youths. He is also very courageous and brave to tackle two of our society's greatest ills - domestic violence and suicide. These two issues have been plaguing our society for ages and going unchecked. It's time someone help put a STOP to these issues.
Thank you Mr. Vince for having the wisdom, understanding, courage and perseverance to tackle these problems. It must involve alot of work, but you persevere. Keep up the great work. The folks back home must be very grateful to you and your team.
Often time, I hear people say they would like to do this and that to help the folks back home, but Mr. Vince is actually doing the hard work and seeing results and making major difference in people's lives.
In March, he organized three community enhancement conferences held at at the University of Guyana, Tain Campus to enhance young people's leadership skills and to help them to make responsible decisions.
Topics discussed included, "Leadership,” “Peer counselling” and the final conference was on “Suicide Intervention.” I'm very happy to see one of my former teacher from Corentyne Comprehensive Secondary School, who is now the headmaster of the Winifred Gaskin Secondary School, Pandit Kamal Dhanessar, participated in the Suicide Intervention seminar. Good to see great work being done, one step at a time to help our youths back there.
At the end of each presentation the youths were involved in workshop sessions and members of the groups were then given the opportunity to present their findings on various topics to their colleagues.
The GCDF is working with a women’s group at Airy Hall, Essequibo to provide a program for domestic violence prevention with a grant of G$2 million [ US$10,000 ] which the women received from the Canada Fund. The GCDF has provided funding to a group at Vilvoorden in Essequibo for computer training, with an objective of producing a DVD for their centre, for fundraising purposes.
According to statistics, in 2006, Berbice had 74 suicides, while the figure for the previous year was 50. In 2007, there were 63 suicides in the county. Alarming indeed.
Mr. Vince noted that there is a great need for suicide intervention in Berbice as it has been found that counselling services are inadequate. He also hopes to have “outreach programmes at schools to implement these programmes effectively.”
Mr. Vince is one of the nice person who writes to me frequently and gave me pointers on how to improve the work I'm doing. I really appreciate his emails. I'm very impressed with his great work, I dedided to write about it too. Excerpts for this article was taken from emails he sent to me. Hopefully, he wouldn't mind my doing this. But, I also want folks to know about his great work and the people's need in Berbice.
Mr. Vince can be reached at: Lot 26 H, King Street,Belvedere North, Albion, Berbice, Guyana, South America.Office: 592-322-4044Cell: 592-698-2224.
Folks if anyone of you can help, please do so. Your intervention can save a life or stop the next domestic abuse. Let's act today!
I've searched for photos of the UG - Berbice Campus onl ine and I downloaded few from GINA.
One of the youngsters at the conference at Tain Campus ...
Berbice UG - Tain Campus ....
Berbice Campus .... 
Mr. Vince Ramcharran .....
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