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Kingston Area Youth Foundation

Región

Global, Caribbean

Resumen

Kingston Area Youth Foundation, launched to produce one specific theatrical play involving young people of inner city Kingston, has since become an arts, education and inner city community development charitable organisation.

Estrategias de comunicación

The Foundation works to:

1) Establish projects which promote the personal development of urban youth (ages 13-25) through the medium of an arts-based recreational programme


2) Carry out formal and informal outreach activities, to extend the impact into the wider community


3) Support the formal education and skills training of participants through scholarships, etc.


4) Produce, promote and present creative endeavors of participants


5) Produce, promote and disseminate audio and video recordings of theatrical and other productions created by participants


6) Act as agents for the youth participants who are contracted to perform, stage manage and/or provide technical and any other services related to theatrical or other productions.

Tema

Education, Youth.

Key Points

Through their own initiative, members have formed their own club to keep the group going. They started their own newspaper and assisted in fund raising by holding a walkathon. Originating in violently hostile communities, now, in their own words: "We are ONE, and nobody can ever divide us again."

Socios Globales

Launched in 1997 by The Company Limited in association with the University of the West Indies, Emory University (Atlanta) and CVM TV. Technical support is now being supplied by UNESCO as an "intersectoral venture."

Contacto

UNESCO - Jamaica Office

The Towers 3rd floor, 25 Dominica Drive

PO Box 8203, Kingston 5, Jamaica.

Tel: (809)929 8468

kingston@unesco.org

UNESCO website


Fuente

Letter from Jocelyne Josiah to The Communication Initiative in 1999.


Puesto en el sitio Communication Initiative - Julio 15 1999
Última Actualización - Junio 13 2001



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