gender-based violence Archives

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

Lifelong learning

By Ross Sheil

Papine High rises up against gender-based violence

“Ever since I’ve left primary school I’ve been trying to work on my anger. I’m still working on it.” – Adriel Fraser, aged 14 Adriel is a student of Papine High School in St Andrew, which is surrounded by several community experiencing high rates of violent crime. Recently a 15-year-old student on his way to the school was… Read more →←

Safety and justice

By Ricardo Brown

I help parents prevent family violence

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 →←

Photograph of Girls Who Know Ja President Chelsea Wright (right) together with vice-presidents Antonette Hines (left) and (Kari Buchanan)

Health promotion

By Chelsea Wright

Chelsea Wright’s cause greater than her

Girls Who Know Ja came from being in school where sexual and reproductive health was something to be tiptoed around and could not be openly discussed in class. As an adolescent, there is such a short list of people who you can go for information and an even shorter list for safe and reliable information. What is being taught in schools… Read more →←

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Papine High rises up against gender-based violence

Papine High rises up against gender-based violence

I help parents prevent family violence

I help parents prevent family violence

Chelsea Wright’s cause greater than her

Chelsea Wright’s cause greater than her

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