The Youth arm of the Willie Redhead Foundation (tWRF) is hosting a presentation on “Interrogating Gender-based violence against women and girls during slavery and the current thrust for reparation.”
The Grenada National Reparations Committee Chairman, Arley Gill, is this activity’s guest speaker. The event will be on Wednesday, 7 December 2022 at Marryshow House, Open University Campus, H A Blaize Street, at 4:30 pm.
This initiative is part of the 16 days of the “UNITE! Activism to end violence against Women and Girls” which commenced on 25 November, the Day to Protest Violence against Women and girls and ends on 10 December, International Human Rights Day.
The Youth arm of tWRF is interested in not only joining the conversation on reparation but these vibrant young people are interested in becoming vanguards of this initiative, and they are desirous of sharing this call to action with other young people. In fact, one of our youth members is at the forefront of the struggle for reparation, as a U-Report OECS volunteer, a group established by UNICEF where the conversation on reparation is ongoing.
Slavery disrupted families. One in three (1–3) marriages was split up, and one in five (1–5) children were separated from their parents. The case for reparations can be made on economic, social, and moral grounds.
The Willie Redhead Foundation for the Conservation and Urban Renewal of St George’s was founded in 1994 by an architect named Norris Mitchell, and Willie Redhead after whom the Foundation is named. The Foundation is a non-governmental organisation whose core mandate is to protect and promote awareness of Grenada’s built heritage as well as Grenada’s intangible cultural heritage.
tWRF Youth Arm