Tagged: Jamaica

Photograph of Minister of Health & Wellness Christopher Tufton (in beige vest) and health workers examining a potential mosquito-breeding site.

How U-Report helped the Ministry of Health respond to dengue

Health promotion

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If someone had asked me six months ago about the fastest way to reach young people in Jamaica, I would probably have said Instagram. If you asked me today, I would likely say U-Report (provided by UNICEF), albeit with the caveat that it depends on your needs. As we pulled together our communication strategy and action plan for dengue at… Read more →←
Photograph of Kingston College head boy, Chad Rattray, standing on the spot outside his school where he was robbed, an incident which inspired him to form Students Safety on the Streets Initiative (SOS). End violence against children

KC head boy’s mission to end violence against students

Safety and justice

By Chad Rattray

I was robbed, right here on the corner of my school Kingston College about two years ago. There is a security camera on the same road as the school, and one time it caught two students being robbed. The video also captured cars just driving by. Nobody stopped to help. Back then, it seemed like every day a student was being robbed or… Read more →←
Photograph of Fight for Peace coach Akino Lindsay in Parade Gardens, downtown Kingston.

World champ coaching for a cause

Safety and justice

By Akino Lindsay

I coach at Fight for Peace teaching youths martial arts as a way to get them to exert some energy and aggression that might be pent up in them throughout the day. Taekwondo is my passion and even though at 24 I have now been a world champion four times, my real passion is for coaching. I lost my father to violence at age 5. So, for… Read more →←
Dwight Cooper, 13, photographed in Parade Gardens, Kingston where is a participant in the Unity and Peace (UP) programme run by UNICEF partner Fight for Peace

A story of winning, despite loss

Safety and justice

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Dwight Cooper, aged 13, does not say much. Instead he leads other children through his actions. Their eyes following his movements, the taekwondo class shadows him step-by-step. Whenever a student makes a mistake, it does not prompt admonishment from Dwight. Instead his style is to pause the session, walk over and demonstrate the correct… Read more →←
Photograph of Children having fun and learning at the same time with Edusport by Fight for Peace in Parade Gardens, Kingston.

More Jamaican children learning the fun way with Edusport

Lifelong learning

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Smiling children are running left and right, bouncing off the walls inside a community centre in downtown Kingston, where energetic primary school students are enjoying ‘Edusport’, a games-based way of learning that is spreading across Jamaica. “This looks like it’s uncoordinated mayhem going on, but it’s not,” says their… Read more →←
Photograph of Team Courtney Greaves helping others on the streets of Kingston.

Free us Jamaican children from violence

Safety and justice

By Courtney Greaves

My name is Courtney Greaves, I am eight years old and I want to be that voice for children who are voiceless. I like to listen to the news and if I hear something about a child I just get a piece of paper and write it down and put in a poem form and I will let my mother video it so I won’t forget it. The other day there was a girl… Read more →←
Photograph of a child doing an exercise at a recent 'Bounce Back' session held in Kingston.

Helping children ‘Bounce Back’ from violence

Safety and justice

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We have just arrived at a classroom in Denham Town, Kingston when an excited boy runs outside. Afew moments later he bolts back into the room, and soon after he is calmly leading a host of other young children in relaxation techniques. “Breathe deep!” he instructs, and everyone follows his lead – taking a long breath in and then… Read more →←
Jamaica Autism Support Association co-founder Kathy Chang holding a photograph of her son Kyle at a recent JASA parent support group meeting.

Children with autism are not less, they are somebody!

Lifelong learning

By Kathy Chang

In that photo, I am proud of my son Kyle and where we are. We made it to 17! That was on his birthday on March 17. I want to show off to the world that he has autism but he’s also a person – and he’s mine! Kyle was born in 2002, and four years later another autism parent and I started a support group to help other parents, which… Read more →←
Parent Nicola Francis holding a photograph of her twin sons Tegan and Taigan at a recent parent support group meeting held by the Jamaica Autism Support Association (JASA).

My twin sons are people first, their autism is second

Lifelong learning

By Nicola Francis

What you are looking at in this photo is a model of what love can do. An appreciation for the magnitude of their progress and the determination it took to get this far. Tegan and Taigan are 13. Tegan has severe autism, and Taigan is high functioning. Tegan is non-verbal. He’ll make simple sentences but for the most part he doesn’t… Read more →←
Lisa and Stephen Henderson holding a photograph of their son Sean, at a recent parent support group meeting held by the Jamaica Autism Support Association (JASA).

Children with autism: let their personalities shine through!

Lifelong learning

By Stephen and Lisa Henderson

This photo represents a significant milestone for our family: Sean who has autism recently turned 10 and just to see him smile into the camera was a big thing, because for the first five or six years he refused to make regular eye contact. So we had lots of photos of our first daughter but not many of him looking into the camera. Today… Read more →←

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