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It looks like an interesting and very busy month for Guests - especially with the new Forums and revamped Forums which have introduced a whole new range of possibilities!
Friday May 7th at 2 pm JeunEspoir Jamaiique (Youth, Hope, Jamaica) as promised, joins us once again for an update on their completion of another 10 day community works project in Kingston... this year the project was expanded to two school groups - so double the experience! I've already seen the very moving slide presentation [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
For the weeks ending Friday May 14th and 21st... we are awaiting confirmation from Organizers of the Montreal International Reggae Festival AND Hands Across Jamaica
For the week ending Friday May 28th... Kiesha Maharry, Funeral Director, McEvoy & Shields Funeral Home (Ottawa) joins us in the Business, Professional Network & Career Building Forum to discuss her career choice, as a young Jamaican woman living in Canada.
Also on the 28th - Diana Dudas from She Caribbean magazine will be joining us in the Style & Fashion Forum to discuss Hairstyles and Healthy Hair Care!
Other contacts to be confirmed... the Dance Institute of Washington (character building and raising self-esteem in youth); Project Aces (relative to obesity in children); the American Sickle Cell Anemia Association; the Kay Morris Foundation (battling the spread of AIDS); Partners in Parenting (fostering to special needs children)... and the list grows!
CHECK BACK REGULARLY FOR WEEKLY UPDATES!!
Reminder... if any of you have connections with people or organizations please send either MissP or myself the info to add to the programming!
***UPDATE***
Jeun'Espoir Afrique (which means Youth Hope Africa) is a branch of the
non-profit organization Jeun’Espoir Jamaïque Inc., based in Ottawa,
Canada. It is a group which is made up of 11 young adults who,
accompanied by a few lesser young adults, will live a humanitarian aid
experience by expressing their solidarity with the needy of the Third
World. During the month of August 2004, they will travel to the
poverty-stricken areas and prisons of Benin, Africa in order to lend
their assistance in various projects ranging from teaching, medical
help, construction and painting to cleaning and social work. They will
devote their time, energy, love and vacation time in order to help
inhabitants of some of the most impoverished areas of our world.
To follow up on their previous similar experience in Jamaica in previous
years, we want to continue to enrich the lives of these energetic and
willful youth, this time spending a longer period of time in a different
culture. In the wave of Canadian help to Africa, we would like to join
in and help our contacts, The Prison Fellowship International: Benin
Section, in their humanitarian endeavors.
Each participant contributes 3000$ to substantiate his or her engagement
and takes part in various fundraisers to pay the trip's numerous
expenses such as computers, medical supplies, school supplies, tools and
paint. We hope to fundraise a total of 20 000$ before leaving.
> For more information and/or interviews with participants and
> organizers, please contact us at:
> tel: (613)749-6027
> fax: (613) 822-4969
> email: [email protected]<br />> website: http://jeunespoirjamaique.com/JEAweb/indexjea.htm
André Clermont
Main organizer of Jeun'Espoir Afrique, Canada-Bénin 2004
Friday May 7th at 2 pm JeunEspoir Jamaiique (Youth, Hope, Jamaica) as promised, joins us once again for an update on their completion of another 10 day community works project in Kingston... this year the project was expanded to two school groups - so double the experience! I've already seen the very moving slide presentation [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
For the weeks ending Friday May 14th and 21st... we are awaiting confirmation from Organizers of the Montreal International Reggae Festival AND Hands Across Jamaica
For the week ending Friday May 28th... Kiesha Maharry, Funeral Director, McEvoy & Shields Funeral Home (Ottawa) joins us in the Business, Professional Network & Career Building Forum to discuss her career choice, as a young Jamaican woman living in Canada.
Also on the 28th - Diana Dudas from She Caribbean magazine will be joining us in the Style & Fashion Forum to discuss Hairstyles and Healthy Hair Care!
Other contacts to be confirmed... the Dance Institute of Washington (character building and raising self-esteem in youth); Project Aces (relative to obesity in children); the American Sickle Cell Anemia Association; the Kay Morris Foundation (battling the spread of AIDS); Partners in Parenting (fostering to special needs children)... and the list grows!
CHECK BACK REGULARLY FOR WEEKLY UPDATES!!
Reminder... if any of you have connections with people or organizations please send either MissP or myself the info to add to the programming!
***UPDATE***
Jeun'Espoir Afrique (which means Youth Hope Africa) is a branch of the
non-profit organization Jeun’Espoir Jamaïque Inc., based in Ottawa,
Canada. It is a group which is made up of 11 young adults who,
accompanied by a few lesser young adults, will live a humanitarian aid
experience by expressing their solidarity with the needy of the Third
World. During the month of August 2004, they will travel to the
poverty-stricken areas and prisons of Benin, Africa in order to lend
their assistance in various projects ranging from teaching, medical
help, construction and painting to cleaning and social work. They will
devote their time, energy, love and vacation time in order to help
inhabitants of some of the most impoverished areas of our world.
To follow up on their previous similar experience in Jamaica in previous
years, we want to continue to enrich the lives of these energetic and
willful youth, this time spending a longer period of time in a different
culture. In the wave of Canadian help to Africa, we would like to join
in and help our contacts, The Prison Fellowship International: Benin
Section, in their humanitarian endeavors.
Each participant contributes 3000$ to substantiate his or her engagement
and takes part in various fundraisers to pay the trip's numerous
expenses such as computers, medical supplies, school supplies, tools and
paint. We hope to fundraise a total of 20 000$ before leaving.
> For more information and/or interviews with participants and
> organizers, please contact us at:
> tel: (613)749-6027
> fax: (613) 822-4969
> email: [email protected]<br />> website: http://jeunespoirjamaique.com/JEAweb/indexjea.htm
André Clermont
Main organizer of Jeun'Espoir Afrique, Canada-Bénin 2004
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