British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, along with sports personalities, Darryl Browne and Daren Ganga yesterday visited Fatima grounds on Mucurapo Road for the launch of Unicef’s International Inspiration’s youth programme.

Brown took time out from his Commonwealth Heads of Government schedule to visit several young students who had gathered to celebrate the local launch of the UK-produced initiative which came into being as part of the UK’s sport and education campaign for the 2012 Olympics.

International Inspiration is a sporting, healthy lifestyle and leisure development programme formulated with a particular focus on developing the holistic wellnes and social inclusion of all children, even the differently abled. The programme has already been launched in Azerbijan, Brazil, Palau, India and Zambia.

Representatives of the British Council told the Sunday Express that Brown’s visit to T&T for the CHOGM meeting was seen as a good time to launch the local leg of the global initiative.

Dr Suleiman Braimoh, UNICEF’s representative for Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago, said International Inspiration was an excellent complement to the organisation’s work with the T&T Government in creating youth friendly environments.