Tagged: Jamaica

Clapham Primary & Infant School EduSport coach Nesha Robinson about to play a socially distant game of 1, 2, 3 Red Light with children from her community.

Games that help children learn, even in COVID-19

Lifelong learning

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Maurice Mahoney, aged 7, from Kilmarnock Primary & Infant School in St. Bess explains it best, “I love playing games so that I can learn!” Started by the Breds Foundation in Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth, with support from UNICEF, EduSport is a games-based approach to learning being rolled out in Jamaican schools. EduSport is… Read more →←
John-Earle Spece, Lead Psychologist on the Fight for Peace UP Unity & Peace programme's Psycho-social Support Team.

Getting to the heart of community mental health

Safety and justice

By John-Earle Spence

COVID-19 has challenged us at Fight for Peace to stay in touch with all the children and youth we had been giving face-to-face support. For people who live in the downtown Kingston communities where our Psycho-social Support Team works, one of the biggest challenges is access to services. Their mental health is no different, and a time… Read more →←
Photograph of Dontree aged 2, aka Peanut, and mom Kayon from Parade Gardens

Unity & Peace spreads from children to parents in COVID-19

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“It brings us together, it teaches us how to participate and it teaches us how to protect ourselves.” – 13-year-old Alphanso Edwards from Fletcher’s Land, a participant in the taekwondo programme by UP Unity & Peace. On a hot, still Friday in downtown Kingston residents are awakening from the peak of the lockdown necessitated… Read more →←
Texal Christie, Principal of Kellits High School, delivering text books to a student

A rural school planning new ways to reopen

Lifelong learning

By Texal Christie

If you look at a map of Jamaica,  you’ll find Kellits High School right in the middle. We’re a rural school in Clarendon that is very much rooted in the community. As a farming community there are certain realities we must contend with, for example many of the students assist in caring for their parents’ farms in addition to their… Read more →←

A father’s love makes the difference in every child’s life

Safety and justice

By Dwight ‘Soapy’ Braithwaite

My father died a week ago. He wasn’t always a part of my life and when we reasoned, a lot of times he would say, ‘Listen I wasn’t the father I was supposed to be at your age,’ but at least I made him proud in showing the difference a father can make for his children. I was angry at him growing up, especially when I would be sent… Read more →←
Photograph of Akela Phillips delivering items to support residents during COVID-19 in her home community of 8 Miles, St Ann.

COVID-19 made me give back to the community I left

Safety and justice

By Akela Phillips

COVID-19 has taught me that if we have some amount of courage, and if we are kind to others, then we will be able to see the world not as it is, but as what the world can be. I left my community of 8 Miles, St. Ann at the age of 15 to go into state care, and my relationship with people there and my family was something I wanted to… Read more →←
Oshea Meaks, 11, a student at Snowdon Primary and Infant School in Manchester learning at home during COVID-19.

School closed and like that my life was changed

Lifelong learning

By Oshea Meaks

March 12, 2020 will be a day I will never forget. When our principal told us that the government announced that there would be a closure for all schools for 14 days we were sad to leave our friends, but we were happy to be going home. I also thought 14 days was pretty short. The next day, I woke up at 6am, just like I always do because I… Read more →←
Painting by Devaughn Burke, aged 4, from a recent contest hosted by the Araba Scott Children’s Foundation in St Thomas.

Coronavirus is the latest monster preying on children

Safety and justice

By Alicia Louise

COVID-19 is an uncomfortable but opportune moment for us to confront serious and longstanding social issues in Jamaica, like violence against women and children. At Araba Scott Children’s Foundation we’ve been adapting our usual programme in St. Thomas, to help those in quarantine until we are able to gather properly again. Between… Read more →←
Teacher Taneka McKoy-Phipps writing another day's schoolwork on a community blackboard in Kingston.

Community blackboards keep children learning

Lifelong learning

By Taneka McKoy-Phipps

School may be closed but I still leave the house at 6 am every day for work at Union Gardens Infant School. In the community where the school is situated I asked to take over a community blackboard and then painted another where I write each day’s schoolwork – on one for the four-year-olds, and the other for the five-year-olds. I… Read more →←

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