 Equity and empowerment Minister Hon. Joakim Henry has been underscoring government's commitment to championing the rights of vulnerable populations in society, with a particular focus on children and the youth. Minister Henry, who recently was the recipient of a courtesy call from a high-level Martin Nican-based Kiwanis delegation with oversight of Eastern Canada and the Caribbean, highlighted his ministry's mandate of advocating for the downtrodden and lending a voice to matters affecting the rights of children. How the population is changing, the age of the population, so young people do not have the amount of care like they had before, values. So Kiwanis and the organisation like yours are very important time in our district where support for children is very critical. Our Kiwanis organisation is an organisation that takes care of our children and our children is priority number one. So in all activities that we do, sharing the place is very important. Flanked by Deputy Permanent Secretary Irwin Gasper and President of the Kiwanis Club of Grosally, Peter Alexander, Minister Henry told the French delegation comprising both the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor that as appreciative as he was of the efforts over the years, still more advocacy was required. Minister Henry encouraged Kiwanis officials to partner with him and continue to lobby and lend their voice towards developmental efforts that will benefit children and secure greater funding from government, donor agencies and other like-minded philanthropic organisations. The strongest thing we will do is to speak out. Sometimes the strongest thing we will do is when we have physical care, but when we speak on behalf of our children, it goes further than when we would like for the organisation like yours to join us and even if you are not joining us directly, but speak out. When you speak out of the challenges on the ground and what you are doing, when I am going to the Prime Minister, it makes it easier for me to get money to go and do it. Because you know it exactly because you understand because I say this is what the Kiwanis are saying. Advocacy is important to know that because we cannot lock doors for more resources. For the 2023-2024 financial year, a strong focus of the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice and Empowerment has been centred on children with several interventions, policies and programmes heavily skilled towards putting children first. The Ministry has also zeroed in on children with disabilities. For his part, the Kiwanis Governor said his primary mission was to assess how the various Kiwanis chapters under his jurisdiction were working in the interests of communities and in caring for the needs of children and the less fortunate.