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Papine High School teachers Keisha Edmondson and Joan Edwards-Taylor together with students Adriel Fraser, aged 14, and Amanda, aged

Papine High rises up against gender-based violence

Lifelong learning
By Ross Sheil
My childhood experience showed me how life-changing sports can be

My childhood experience showed me how life-changing sports can be

Safety and justice

By Mark Cole

Growing up in Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth, we would play anything that involved competition: from hopscotch, jacks, marbles and racing handmade wooden trucks to more traditional sports like cricket, football, track and even bicycle racing down the lane. As the youngest, I always had to be playing catch up to my bigger, stronger, faster… Read more →←
Sihle Atkinson is the 25-year-old U-Reporter who suggested the name U-Matter, voted by U-Reporters as the name for U-Report's mental health chatline service, a collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Wellness and the Caribbean Child Development Centre at the UWI Open Campus. This is her story of overcoming and advice for others.
I am that happy person who also happens to have depression

I am that happy person who also happens to have depression

Health promotion

By Sihle Atkinson

Sihle Atkinson is the 25-year-old U-Reporter who suggested the name U-Matter, voted by U-Reporters as the name for U-Report’s mental health chatline service, a collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Wellness and the Caribbean Child Development Centre at the UWI Open Campus. This is her story of overcoming and advice for… Read more →←
How to make each taxpayer dollar count more for children

How to make each taxpayer dollar count more for children

Health promotion Lifelong learning

By Ross Sheil

For anybody reading this who is a Jamaican taxpayer, your concern might be how those funds are spent and how they can achieve better outcomes for our children? In that case you might be happy to hear about something called Results-Based Budgeting (RBB), where ministries allocate resources on outcomes envisaged in the Government of… Read more →←
Photograph of Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation student Lithana Stanly, aged 16, together with her son Tajuan, photographed at the WCJF centre in Port Antonio, Portland. (Photo: Derma Virgo)
I’m a teen mom dreaming big for me and my baby

I’m a teen mom dreaming big for me and my baby

Safety and justice

By Lithana Stanly

Tajaun and his mother benefitted from a UNICEF-supported parenting programme operated by the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation, which is designed to help adolescent mothers feel more empowered and confident about themselves and the care, protection and support they give to their children. By investing in adolescent parents today,… Read more →←
Photograph of Simone White, a special needs teacher from Mico Practising Primary and Junior High with Special Education Unit in Kingston.
School is a ‘Return to Happiness’ for every teacher and student

School is a ‘Return to Happiness’ for every teacher and student

Lifelong learning

By Simone White

Return to Happiness (RTH) is a psychosocial recovery programme developed by UNICEF to help children and adolescents build resilience and positive coping skills in response to emergencies by taking a culturally relevant, community-based approach, including the use of the arts as a therapeutic tool. During COVID-19, UNICEF is supporting… Read more →←
Photograph of Damoie Byfield, age 17, together with his sister 'Chia' at home in the community of South Side, Kingston.
“COVID-19 mash up everything” – my life without school

“COVID-19 mash up everything” – my life without school

Lifelong learning

By Damoie Byfield

The only thing I can do now is just babysit my sister since I’m not going to school. I don’t have anything else to do. I prefer to babysit her then go out on the road and be around bad company. She’s teaching me a lot. She’s smart – anything people say she’ll understand and tell you. She might not tell you clearly, but I… Read more →←
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Not a teacher, but doing what I can to help my family

Not a teacher, but doing what I can to help my family

Lifelong learning

By Jahkimea Bailey

When I realized that my sister’s children were struggling being out of school, I decided that when I have free time before and after work, I am going to help them with reading – so I started off doing phonics, with ‘th’ words and so on. I did my little research and found out what might be suitable for them and from there… Read more →←
Photograph of Gail Hoad, UNICEF Jamaica Comunication for Development Consultant together with her mother Blossom holding her COVID-19 vaccination certificate.
Vaccines work: Making sure to protect my mom against COVID-19

Vaccines work: Making sure to protect my mom against COVID-19

Health promotion

By Gail Hoad

The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t been easy for many Jamaican families, but we count our blessings. My mum got her second shot of the COVID vaccine on June 13. As a senior citizen she is among the most vulnerable, and COVID-19 literally put much of her life on hold. Seniors were told to stay home so I started doing her grocery shopping.… Read more →←
I help parents prevent family violence

I help parents prevent family violence

Safety and justice

By Ricardo Brown

At age 12, I learned a lesson about violence when I became a babysitter in my extended family. Growing up, I had already learned that the way to discipline was to beat, and so with my brothers, sister, and cousins, that was what I did. But then one day one of my brothers fought back and said, “Wait, when we get older, we are going to… Read more →←
On 16 August 2016 in Belize, 4-year-old Orin and his father, Marshall Mejia, play in the water during a visit to the seashore, in their hometown of Dangriga, on the south-eastern coast.
The schoolboy father dreaming of better for his son

The schoolboy father dreaming of better for his son

Safety and justice

By Lerone, aged 17

Sometimes I feel like giving up but every time I think about it, the baby comes to mind. If he is safe, then I’m all right. For me, the next step is to keep trying with my CSEC subjects. Before COVID-19, I didn’t feel like I was in prison. But it’s been hard dealing with this – as a father and as a high school student. Not being… Read more →←
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Based in Kingston we are the UNICEF country office in Jamaica and work with our local government and non-profit partners to improve the lives of children in Jamaica: education, safety, health and youth empowerment.

Social protection

Achieving national action to reduce child poverty: strengthen public investment; data collection and reporting on child rights, particularly on disabilities.

Safety and justice

Working to end violence in every sphere of a child’s life: prevention; legislation; barriers and bottlenecks; capacity building; and partnerships/innovation.

Lifelong learning

Improving education for disadvantaged children: access to quality education; safe schools; early childhood development; student-centred learning; and data collection.

Health promotion

Boosting health outcomes for infants and adolescents: access to quality services; prenatal and postnatal care; HIV/AIDS; teen pregnancy; and vulnerable groups.
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