{"id":19291,"date":"2021-02-18T01:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T00:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soeurs-de-la-presentation-de-marie.org\/pom\/?p=19291"},"modified":"2021-02-17T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T11:04:12","slug":"echoes-of-the-mission-region-of-the-gambia-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soeurs-de-la-presentation-de-marie.org\/pom\/echoes-of-the-mission-region-of-the-gambia-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Echoes of the Mission: Region of The Gambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>PRESENTATION GIRLS VOCATIONAL SCHOOL (PGVS)<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">CELEBRATES 50 YEARS<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19308\" src=\"https:\/\/soeurs-de-la-presentation-de-marie.org\/pom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0701dc8a-a389-424e-bc5b-af49e3c3097b-500x510.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"278\">Presentation Girls Vocational School is a Catholic training center run and owned by the Presentation of Mary Sisters.&nbsp; The school was established in 1972 by Sr. Cecilia Lanovaz.&nbsp; Presentation Girls Vocational School (PGVS) focuses on helping women who are underprivileged by providing them with basic education and skills that would allow them to become self-employed and\/or develop a career that will improve their quality of life.&nbsp; It is a school that offers an empowerment program for women.&nbsp; This program helps these young women develop skills that will enable them to overcome economic and social problems.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Education is a powerful tool that the Sisters use to empower these women.&nbsp; Through education these women are given the opportunity for life-long learning. They are helped to find their passion and what they want to be in life.&nbsp; They are exposed to different types of activities and career learning that can bring about change in their lives.&nbsp; The program offered to them helps improve the women\u2019s sense of wellbeing, self-esteem and self-efficacy and teaches them good communication skills.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19314\" src=\"https:\/\/soeurs-de-la-presentation-de-marie.org\/pom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cc09c983-327f-4198-9de7-95bdf2af1e18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\">Educators at PGVS, help these women become better readers and writers, build self-confidence to express themselves, develop their skills in art work, tailoring, hairdressing, facial treatment, manicure and pedicure and secretarial work.&nbsp;&nbsp; Leadership behaviors are encouraged as students are given opportunities to take on a variety of responsibilities. This empowerment program helps them acquire knowledge on how to run a business, how to manage their homes, personal hygiene and how to become independent women.&nbsp; It enables these women to become self-supportive and creative and offers them the skills and the knowledge needed to face the challenges of life in today\u2019s world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">To God be the glory.<\/span><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; PRESENTATION GIRLS VOCATIONAL SCHOOL (PGVS) CELEBRATES 50 YEARS Presentation Girls Vocational School is a Catholic training center run and owned by the Presentation of Mary Sisters.&nbsp; The school was established in 1972 by Sr. Cecilia Lanovaz.&nbsp; Presentation Girls Vocational School (PGVS) focuses on helping women who are underprivileged by providing them with basic education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1700,821],"tags":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":19291,"fr":19340,"pt":19341,"es":19342},"pll_sync_post":{"en":true,"fr":true,"pt":true,"es":true},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soeurs-de-la-presentation-de-marie.org\/pom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soeurs-de-la-presentation-de-marie.org\/pom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soeurs-de-la-presentation-de-marie.org\/pom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soeurs-de-la-presentation-de-marie.org\/pom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soeurs-de-la-presentation-de-marie.org\/pom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19291"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/soeurs-de-la-presentation-de-marie.org\/pom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19343,"href":"https:\/\/soeurs-de-la-presentation-de-marie.org\/pom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291\/revisions\/19343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soeurs-de-la-presentation-de-marie.org\/pom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soeurs-de-la-presentation-de-marie.org\/pom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soeurs-de-la-presentation-de-marie.org\/pom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soeurs-de-la-presentation-de-marie.org\/pom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}