On Tuesday, Minister of Public Administration and MP for San Fernando West Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan presented ten-year-old Justin Francis with a cheque to help with the cost of corrective surgeries still to be done on his left eye.Young Justin was deliberately stabbed in the eye with a pencil by a classmate at Rosary Boys' RC School three years ago and even after three operations remains partially blind.
It wasn't the only thing that the Public Administration Minister would do at her office that day. She also announced an anti-bullying campaign targeting 23 schools in the San Fernando district, a project that will go ahead with the support of the police, the ministries of Education and Gender, the National Parent Teachers Association and the Anti-Bullying Association, led by its president, Jeromy Rodriguez, 12, of Cowen Hamilton Secondary School, Princes Town.
Master Rodriguez formed the association after seeing his sister coming home after being attacked at school."She was being bullied at school," he explained. "and it really broke my heart to see her coming from school with a black eye, no money, because this child at the school was taking away her money and she was not focusing on school."
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