The Government of Trinidad and Tobago in its recognition that a significant number of youth between the ages of fourteen (14) to thirty (30) years are “Youth at Risk”, and in need of social intervention strategy/mechanisms, have set out to transform and engender in them –
An understanding of the value and benefits of giving back to communities through selfless service;
An understanding of the value of instruction and acceptance of personal responsibility to enable their attainment of a full certificates of secondary education; and
training, development and certification to employable standards, their craft, artisan, artistic and entrepreneurial skills, while inculcating in them via prolonged exposure to a quasi-military environment, a sense of social respect for authority.