This week is Belize Brain Awareness week and the Brain Awareness Society has put together a week of activities for the students as Grace Primary. Today for Mental Wellness Day, we saw over 60 Standard 2 and 3 students get information on how to protect their mind:
Kaylia Nunez, Founder, Belize Brain Awareness Society
"We want them to be well rounded when it comes to anything knowledge about their brain. So with mental wellness we know that especially when since their brain is growing and they're questioning certain things and certain feelings, it will help them to understand certain vibrations that they may have."
"Whereby now they can see now that, okay, I feel this way, I have this type of feeling. So now they can put a name to what they have and we can take it from there. We bring them little prizes and then we ask them question after."
"It's amazing. Even yesterday when we had Dr. Marco and he was asking the question about who wanted to be neurologist, how long it takes them to, they could have answered right on the spot."
"We got so many hands raised. So each day we have whereby we give them these presentations and these little workshops with students and teachers themselves and then we have them participating in terms of us getting the acquired knowledge that we need them to get."
"We would ask them questions back in return and if they get it right they earn themselves a prize."
Reporter
"What do you hope to achieve out of these this week?"
Kaylia Nunez, Founder, Belize Brain Awareness Society
"The fact that children can get a better understanding of the importance of the green."
