"This Is The Country I Want To Live In"..Guyanese Youths Share Their Vision of Guyana

What If You Could Make Guyana a perfect place..What would you change?

In 2015 Guyana National Youth Council, asked a several Guyanese youth to share their vision of Guyana. And they gave wide ranging answers to this simple question.

Some of their answers might surprise you but I was a valuable exercise to determine how young Guyanese felt about the current state of their country.

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