Most outstanding Guyanese youth #17 FROM THE WESTSIDE TO Taiwan DELON Grandison is on a positive mission (By Mondale Smith in New York) Keep focused, know that in your walk you are likely to fall but this does not make you a failure... becoming prey to the fall does, therefore get up, dust yourself off and continue to walk. This is the advice to Guyana and Caribbean youths from aspiring international Journalist/motivational coach Delon Grandison. Age 21, he gives true meaning to the expression Guyanese like salt can be found everywhere. While most young men his age maybe focused on temporary, short lived aspirations and current day materiel glam this Den Amstel kid is on a different mission. One that has taken him and eleven other youths to a far away place that most can but dream of... Through funding from the Council World Mission he is in China rising above the language barrier as part of a quest to meet and influence all peoples for positive self, community and national development through a ten months course. Because not everyone can fluently speak English and neither can he fluently speak Mandarin Chinese, they are sometimes forced to use google translator to communicate since the aim is to meet all people. This makes the process very slow but its gonna be worth it in the end, he says. Grandison who stands at 6ft 5inches tall winged out of Guyana On March 3 as the lone Guyanese of two Caribbean youths to attend the Council For World Mission Africa Region Youth discovery programme, to study at the Tainan Theological college and seminary with attachments at the UN Alliance. It may be cliche by now to state that Guyanese like salt can be found everywhere but contrary to popular belief not all are engaged in negative activities. This West Coast Demerara has found himself all the way in the Peoples Republic of China, Taiwan undergoing training for a certificate in Practical Theology. He was chosen after he successfully completed training in Botswana and South Africa. Already he is nearing completion of the first semester after which he heads to Kiribati in August and then on to New Zealand in September. How did this simple graduate of Stewartville Secondary school end up this far? Well to begin with in his quest to be a journalist/broadcaster he was a regular bookworm who ended up as a guest host on the Malcolm Wickedee show on NCN even as he was humbly serving as the President of the Guyana Congregational Young Peoples Union. This is in addition to him pursuing studies in Communication at the University of Guyana. This ardent advocate for youths to remain in school on the West Coast says the current programme on serves to equip youths aged 20-30 with skills necessary to serve others which is his ultimate life mission. He says training in China is mostly Practical but is along the lines of missionary theology. Upon completion he will be able to employ his skills in his homeland Guyana and the Caribbean with maximum benefits to youths in both demographics as it is a requirement for those on the course to complete community projects etc. Once completed he intends to, if given the opportunity, work with Government ministries to influence youths in positive self, community and National development.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:42:53 +0000
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