| Video documentation (by Urban Tree Music) about the grand opening and launch of the HELP Jamaica! Education Center in Cassava Piece, Kingston 8 as well as the last weeks of preparation before that remarkable event. www.helpjamaica.org www.facebook.com/helpjamaica The aim of the HELP Jamaica! Education Center is to provide access to books, computers, the internet and educational programs free of cost to the citizens of the community and its surroundings. It aims to strengthen and inspire individuals, and thus improve, uplift and unite the community. The center-library offers a comprehensible book collection with specialization in children books with Caribbean, African and African American background, educational books, biographies of inspiring personalities as well as guidebooks on parenting and youth development. Just 10 month after the opening the center today offers a wide range of educational offers and courses for example: daily homework assistance and help with exam preparations (CXC/GSAT), reading and literacy support, art and craft courses, computer classes for young and old, various math classes, a gardening class, various games and outside activities, story telling, spelling, dancing as well as a weekly drama class, guidance counseling sessions and community meetings. We just started a wonderful 'Video Penpal' project between the kids from the Center and a English class (5th graders) in Helsinki, Finland. We appointed a wonderful team of skilled and caring ... |
