Workers of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) are yet to be paid wages and salaries for this month and there has been no official word as to when this development will become a reality.Yesterday was the entity’s stipulated pay date.However, efforts are continually being made on the part of the municipality to address issues that could directly affect the well-being of workers,Cheap Soccer Jerseys, Public Relations Officer, Royston King asserted yesterday.As part of this quest, the municipality yesterday held a second seminar for its frontline workers with a focus on customer relations, customer care and HIV/AIDS in the workplace. “The reason we are doing this again is because we are concerned about the welfare of our employees and the level of customer care we are giving. We believe that these sessions will enhance the knowledge of our workers, some of whom are already familiar with certain protocols at City Hall in terms of the way we treat our customers,” King said.According to him,Jerseys Wholesale, yesterday’s session, which was held at the National Library, was geared at enhancing workers’ knowledge to improve on their skills and saw participation of frontline workers from the seven departments of the municipality.The issue of HIV/AIDS, in particular,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, has of recent taken major precedence in terms of awareness efforts.According to Municipal HIV/AIDS Co-ordinator, Dale Beresford, the whole venture comes as part of a one-year project which was kicked into motion last August.It is funded by the Health Sector Development Unit of the Ministry of Health.The project is valued at some $15M and is intended to help mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS among workers of the Georgetown municipality. And as part of its implementation is a work programme which requires the involvement of staffers from all sections of the municipality with a view of building their capacity.“We are training persons to continue to disseminate information, develop policies, programmes and manuals and also integrate HIV/AIDS into the existing work programme of the municipality,” Beresford disclosed.He said that a series of programmes have been streamlined.Beresford said that staffers, including cooks, janitorial staff and child care providers, at the various municipal day care centres have so far been trained to better address the HIV/AIDS situation in their respective capacity.“It was about 60 persons in all that we trained to actually look at HIV/AIDS among orphans and vulnerable children.For them also we dealt with prevention and some of their lifestyles, healthy working relationships and stigma and discrimination.”And since the majority of the staffers are females,cheap nfl jerseys, Beresford said that negotiating condom use has also been a high point of sessions that were had.This, he said, has so far entailed advising the women of ways they could help prevent themselves from becoming infected with HIV. “We are aiming to build and empower women to be more proactive when it comes to condom use,” Beresford noted.Future activities will also include HIV/AIDS activities at all of the municipal markets,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, a venture which according to Beresford will also take on the form of mini health exhibitions. “We will have HIV/AIDs booths sharing information about condoms and we will also have services such as diabetes and HIV/AIDS testing among others.”It was just recently the municipality had started targeting its frontline workers as part of this venture.This, Beresford said, was especially crucial as this level of staff is in fact the frontline workers that persons would normally meet when they attempt to access the service of municipality.“There are persons who may be HIV positive, real or perceived, and it is important that we understand that those persons should be treated in a certain humane and compassionate way.We should also look at the reasonable accommodation for those persons,” Beresford noted.The target of the project,NBA Jerseys From China, he said, is to educate at least 25 percent of the municipal workforce, an objective that has already been attained.This is evident, Beresford said, through the feedback that has been forthcoming from staffers who have been involved in the various sessions.Staffers have indicated the need for more integrated training programmes, that is, incorporating staffers from different departments in a single session.