Help and Shelter has access to various manuals for use in public education. All can be distributed and used freely, as long as Help & Shelter is credited with the source.

On this page, you can download some manuals , reports and other documents which were produced as resources in work against violence.  Unless otherwise stated , the materials are available for FREE distribution and use, with credit acknowledged to Help & Shelter and sources . If you have any difficulties downloading these manuals, please contact us


Resource Manual for Public Educators and Advocates

This manual is a resource which could be used by Advocates against domestic violence. It contains information and ideas for advocates against Domestic Violence. This manual is a knowledge resource which was produced by as part of Help & Shelter's public education programme and in collaboration with UNIFEM Trust Fund to Eradicate Violence Against Women.

Download MS Word pubedmanual.doc


Download Adobe PDF pubedmanual.pdf

Listing of Community Resource Groups in Guyana

This manual was researched by Red Thread and funded by the CIDA- Caribbean Gender Equity Fund. The information is correct as at December 1999.
There is a listing by alphabetical order, and a listing by subject area and regionally.
The telephone numbers have changed. All numbers in Guyana are now seven digits long.


The five digit numbers are prefixed by 22, eg 50897 became 22-50897 . Numbers which had codes 04 are now 444, 03 became 333 .

Download the manual in PDF format (153K)

Counsellors' Training Manual
This manual was written as part of the project funded by Canada - Caribbean Gender Equity Fund in 1998/2000. This material in this manual was used to train volunteer counsellors at Help & Shelter. It was compiled by Dr Jackson Jackson for Help & Shelter

Please click to download the zipped up Word Perfect version
Download WP Version wpmanual.zip
Please click to dowload the zipped up RTF version of this manual

Download RTF Version rtftraining.zip