[www.inewsguyana.com] – The United States Embassy has provided more than US$7,600 worth of equipment and supplies to Youths For Guyana (YFG) as part of the Guyana Shines: Keep Guyana Beautiful initiative.
The property grant included gloves, bags, computers, tables, electronic equipment, and other items to support the group’s environmental work.
The recent handover follows over US$34,000 in grant funding provided to the YFG organization as the implementing partner for the Guyana Shines environmental program.
“With additional support from Guyana Shinescorporate sponsors ExxonMobil, Republic Bank, and Caribbean Containers Inc, we can come together – government, citizens, the private sector, and the international community – to meet this complex but critical challenge,” a statement from the Embassy stated.
The Guyana Shines: Keep Guyana Beautiful project was formally launched on June 1 and will continue until June 2015. The Guyana Shines: Keep Guyana Beautiful project uses focused messaging on the environment through “education” and “action” elements. 
These will include environmental workshops for civil society and private sector partners; training and collaboration with schools and environmental clubs; impactful and memorable radio and TV public service announcements; the creation of protected green spaces; and weekly clean-ups.
It is the latest chapter in a series of Guyana Shines community development projects that have taken place since April 2012. Past activities include visits to 62 primary and secondary schools in Georgetown to educate students on the environment and litter, several neighborhood clean-up projects, training for environmental volunteers, the creation of an original video documentary, and the wide showing of the Trashed documentary.
Already, Guyana Shines: Keep Guyana Beautiful has undertaken a number of projects to directly benefit the people of Guyana. On June 8 Guyana Shines volunteers carried out a clean-up of the beach along the Georgetown Seawall in celebration of World Oceans Day, to lend their voices through action towards maintaining and protecting the ocean from multiple threats.
Since the launch, volunteers have taken part in clean-up exercises around Georgetown every single weekend – frequently joined by community residents, local businesses, and government officials to include the Mayor and City Council and the Environmental Protection Agency.
In mid-July, Guyana Shines started transformational work on its first green space, located in the Werk-en-Rust neighborhood.
GRAY You don’t make any sense
well its about time..the UK and US made the mess guyana is in today …political mess and garbage mess all it created..they owe it to the guyanese people for what they done to them by installing their big fat puppet and pnc to misrule guyana..to this day that mess cant be cleaned..the same UK and US wanting their PNC puppets installed again