In 2022, Abyssinia a Journey of CHANGE was rebranded as Abyssinia a Journey of Challenging Harmful and Negative Gender Expressions and is aligned to ROOTS Foundation’s Life Management curriculum.
In 2022, Abyssinia a Journey of CHANGE was rebranded as Abyssinia a Journey of Challenging Harmful and Negative Gender Expressions and is aligned to ROOTS Foundation’s Life Management curriculum.
In 2017, in response to the Rasta City vs Muslim City street gang violence, ROOTS Foundation launched Abyssinia a Journey of CHANGE. This behaviour modification model for 11-24-year-old youth presents a fresh and dynamic social intervention approach to drugs, gangs, and all categories of violence.
In 2022, Abyssinia a Journey of CHANGE was rebranded as Abyssinia a Journey of Challenging Harmful and Negative Gender Expressions and is aligned to ROOTS Foundation’s Life Management curriculum.
“Breaking bad”? Gangs, masculinities, and murder in Trinidad (2017)
The methodology was strengthened by data collected and analyzed from a series of innovative spoken-word workshops – similar to slam poetry – drawing on cultural traditions in collaboration with our local partner, the ROOTS Foundation
GPS EmpoWomen Global Summit (2021)
“What is Harmful is Universal” GPS Women and Girls EmpoWomen Summit Virtual Experience Across Borders provided empowerment, advocacy, and raised awareness of the plight of women and girls across borders by providing gender-based violence prevention and gender equality and equity in governance.
Participants from Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Ghana, Kenya, India and Sri Lanka explored and shared their experiences and the phenomena of gender-based violence in their communities. They also developed community-based solutions to an issue that is both local and global.
The Free Period (2021-2024)
ROOTS Foundation delivered two workshop series for young people that focused on using spoken word poetry and theatre to combat Gender-Based Violence for the research project “Representing Gender-Based Violence: Literature, Performance and Activism in the Anglophone Caribbean.”
A Facilitation Guide and a Series of short skits were produced. There were also several Papers produced based on this research project.
