STUDENTS WALK FOR PEACE

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Students of St Stephen’s College walked through the streets of Princes Town on Friday morning, in commemoration of UNESCO’s International Day of Non-violence.  And while the event had been planned for some time, their message became a very personal one today, having lost a fellow student to suicide this week.  Reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh was present for the walk and tells us more.

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00:00Hundreds of students, scores of signs, one central message, say no to every form of violence.

00:10Parents, teachers and students of St. Stephen's College in Princestown walked through their

00:15community on Friday morning calling on people to spread love, kindness and to simply be good.

00:24This week marks the commemoration of UNESCO's non-violence and St. Stephen's has taken it upon

00:29themselves to initiate, take the first step towards denouncing violence in the community.

00:36I think sometimes we can dehumanize other people once they're outside our circle and so the very

00:42simple words of be kind because your words hold weight, they are hefty, people remember them.

00:47We try to spread that message of saying no to violence in all its forms and in terms of making

00:56a positive impact. It ended a week of activities at the school but in the middle of it all the

01:03school population was rocked by the death of a student which made Friday's walk an even more

01:10personal plea. Today as a school we mourn the loss of one of our dear students,

01:16a dear student of form four who committed suicide. Today they do not have a child,

01:22they do not have a son and regardless of the circumstances all of us know that bullying

01:29played a part, it played a part and we must address it, we must demand, we must demand

01:36from our leaders, we must demand from administration a zero tolerance on bullying

01:42because losing one life, one life is one too many. The president of the school's PTA says

01:49children often pick up negative behaviours from the content they consume online. It's why parents

01:56also have a duty he says to get more involved in the lives of their children. With technology

02:05students, young people are exposed to all sorts of activities on the internet, on YouTube,

02:15they have access to information as never before, they learn stuff that you know parents don't

02:20teach them at home. Educating our parents to have a greater involvement in the lives of their

02:27children, understanding how important crime affects our society, understanding how important

02:34it is for us as parents to educate our children about living good in society,

02:39living in harmony, living in peace. Cindy Raguba Tikasingh, TV6 News.

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