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Community Transformation Board Establishes Homework Centre in Parade Gardens

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Project STAR, in partnership with PwC, Universal Service Fund (USF), e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited and the Jamaica Constabulary Force, has launched the east downtown Kingston homework programme in Parade Gardens.

Sharise Staines-Appleby, community services lead at Project STAR, said the programme is an initiative of the Community Transformation Board in Parade Gardens, which recommended a homework programme for the community.

“The homework programme will not just assist the kids with their homework but will also give them support in the areas of numeracy, literacy, and reading, which are fundamental in order to improve their capacity and the educational outcome of the community,” she said.

The Project STAR community services lead said that the programme will take place three days per week for students at the primary level and one day for students at the secondary level. In addition, the students will be provided with a meal each evening. The programme also hostsa computer centre and an area for printing educational materials.

Bruce Scott, territory leader at PwC Jamaica said that his organisation was happy to partner with Project STAR on the initiative.

“This homework centre is a major step in helping these children achieve their education. I’m not just talking, as I’m a proud product of the inner-city who was able to excel on the back of education,” he said.

Scott, who grew up in Southside, said PwC Jamaica is a legacy donor of Project STAR and has invested $2.1 million in the operations of the homework centre.

Andrew Lee, chief executive officer of eLearning Jamaica Company Limited, said his organisation is truly honoured to have played a pivotal role in supporting the Parade Gardens Homework Programme.

“As we extend our commendation to Project STAR for their leadership in this community engagement initiative, we recognise the profound impact this will have on the youths of Parade Gardens and beyond,” he said.e-learning Jamaica has provided access to technological tools, including 31 desktop computers, which will be used by the children to do their research for their assignments and provide computer literacy.

Daniel Dawes, chief executive officer of the USF said that its partnership with Project-star for the completion of the homework centre at Parade Gardens is another example of the USF's commitment to ensure a safe, available, and functional space is provided for children to utilise the internet and other ICT facilities

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Homework Programm starting at LifeYard

We are happy to announce that starting April 29th 2019, we are offering another Homework Assistance Programm.

Partnering with the Life Yard Team & Studio Dan we will offer a daily opportunity to the children of Parade Gardens in Downtown Kingston to get help with their homework.

Under the title ‘YARD WORK’ we provide a daily (Monday-Friday) one hour per day homework centre to help “at risk” Jamaican youth between the ages of 6-17 with their school assignments. Ranging from daily homework to school-based assignments (SBA) for CSEC students.

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The programm will offer the necessary expertise and guidance to help the youth with their assignments and school projects through the hiring of three facilitators and volunteer partnerships with Kingston based Teacher’s colleges. Providing material and information needed for the youth to complete all assignments. Free access to three functioning laptops and free WIFI services. Printing services and material; folder paper, file jackets etc.

All in a safe space for youth to express themselves while rewinding from a long day at school. Thus, providing a channel of empowerment and mentorship.

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Springfield appeals for homework centre

Lynworth Brown, president of the Springfield Community Club in Guys Hill, St Catherine is asking for help so he can continue to assist the needy in the community.

Residents of Springfield district in Guy’s Hill, St Catherine, have called for the addition of a homework centre to complement the work of its community club.

Lynworth Brown, president of the organisation, said that stakeholders would be able to intervene by providing remedial studies, which he believes “can even save lives”.

The club building, which is named in honour of Gloria Bruce, who donated the land to accommodate the structure, was completed in 2018 and has been the meeting place of two parishes.

The structure is strategically located on the main road separating St Mary from St Catherine and is a meeting venue for police authorities in Gayle and Guy’s Hill.

Brown said that the club is financed by donations from church, school, and diaspora sponsors, as well as St Mary Western Member of Parliament Robert Montague and colleague representative for St Catherine North East, Kerensia Morrison.

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The Springfield community club has about 200 members age 10 to 75.

“I certainly believe this club has shown its work. It’s used for pageants, meetings, awards, and civic ceremonies. Therefore, a homework centre would be welcome as it is a farming community, so education is crucial,” Delbert Tomlinson, a taxi operator, told The Gleaner.

The club building also serves as a hub for the distribution of care packages to the aged and infirm. Persons of unsound mind also get a care package once monthly.

“We do care for those whom we serve, but with all the great intentions, we are lacking in the ability to keep persons ready for the job market as education is key. We really need a homework centre,” Brown said.

The club president said the centre would assist those who have failed to complete secondary-school studies or those who are unable to attend classes.

Lloyd Erskine of the Social Development Commission has endorsed the activities of the Springfield community club.

“The club is very active and is also a part of the Guy’s Hill Community Development Committee. I do believe that the homework centre would indeed help in the delivery of social programmes,” Erskine said.

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We recognise the seeming outreach need for parents and communities to provide an after school programme providing one-on- one supervision for the primary education level students.

This initiative provides homework supervision and target primary aged students that meet the criteria as set out in our Charter.

The programme was launched in September 2014 and we are committed to having operational 20 such centres throughout Trinidad and Tobago. To-date there are 15 centres.

Our supervised homework centre environment aim to motivate and contribute to a sound learning platform that will enable students a smooth transitioning into the secondary level of education.

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"Students in the rural community of Maryland, Gordon Town, St Andrew are enjoying increased internet speeds courtesy of the Flow Foundation which recently upgraded the internet speeds at the Bridgeview Foundation Homework Centre. The sponsored internet service is part of a larger philanthropic project by the Bridgeview Foundation which has established the homework centre with desktop and laptop computers, tablets and a printer. The project will help to bridge the digital divide in the community and provide students with well-needed online learning access and support. " - Excerpt from the Jamaica Observer. Click here to read full article. More info company information at www.flowfoundationja.org

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Ricardo Burke just loves to look after the youth

Ambitious service and dedication to community and nation building have been hallmark of Ricardo Burke, founder and president of Youth for Change Foundation operating from the St Catherine community of Gregory Park.

The Jamaica Observer caught up with Burke at Gregory Park Basic School recently, where he and members of his foundation were setting up equipment for a movie day put on for the little ones. Riding in on a bicycle he had been using to transport laptops, a projector, speakers and a popcorn machine, Burke explained that this was an initiative he and his team had embarked on with schools in the community.

“What we do is, whenever the schools in the community having anything like a movie day, we supply them with the equipment for free. Last year we had a summer school for the children, because at some underserved schools the children don’t get exposed to computers at an early age. By tomorrow when they see me on the road they are going to be saying see the movie man there,” Burke said with a laugh.

Principal of the basic school, Jennifer Ferguson praised Burke as someone who has been a part of the “backbone” of the institution.

“For a very long time now, over the years, Ricardo has been a tremendous help to us. Any function we having, we can call on him. He and his group, they always come in and help us to beautify our school. The last thing that he did was to repaint the building, cut the lawn, and do the gardening areas. From time to time they have given us gifts — they donated an electric kettle one time. He is very involved in our school. As a matter of fact he is one of our backbone; and to know that he doesn’t even have any relatives at the school and he is always here to help us. Mr Burke is basically our main man,” Ferguson said.

A son of the Gregory Park community, Burke spoke enthusiastically about providing the basic necessities for children to be able to go to school and helping parents become self-sustaining, things to which he said he and his foundation had dedicated themselves.

Giving the Sunday Observer a tour of the Youth for Change Foundation centre just a stone’s throw away from the basic school, Burke shared more about the many other initiatives the foundation has embarked on.

“We open from around 5:30 to 6:00 am for breakfast, which we serve to the children in the community by 10 minutes to seven. After that, we close at eight and clean up and open back by 10:30 when persons in the community come to do resumes, application letters, and so on. By 2:30 when school over, we have the Homework Assistance Programme for children to come in and get assistance with their homework. In the evening we have board games for the children, which get them to socialise more. On average about 40 persons, children and adults, pass through the centre on a daily basis,” Burke said.

A fully operational hub though, is a far cry from where the group has come.

“When the foundation started in July 2014 we started out under a tree; then we ended up under a light post where we used to keep meetings. Then we were in a basic school, then we went to the Gregory Park Primary School. We got the building in July 2016 and the centre was officially opened in November of 2016,” Burke said.

He added that, “currently we have a kids’ group for children ages six to 11 (22 members), which is called Kids Connection. We have a youth group called Youth Arm for persons 12-24 years old (33 members), and then we have a Parents Club with 15 members and also six executive members”.

In total, Burke said that there are about 76 active members of the Youth for Change Foundation. But again, these numbers are nowhere near what they used to be. In fact, as Burke explained, he started the foundation at a time in his life when he was alone and depressed.

“Amazingly, it was when I was going through the worst time of my life that I started the group. At that point I was going through a phase of depression, walking and talking to myself at nights, and smoking,” Burke said

It was during that time, he explained, that he used to see a little boy and a little girl who were always asking him for money.

“One day, out of curiosity, I asked them why they were not in school and they said their mother don’t have any money to send them to school. At that point I said to a friend of mine that I needed to start something now to help children go back to school, because I didn’t take my education serious and I know that it is the same thing that is going to happen to them. And that was basically the start of Youth for Change Foundation”, Burke said.

But, with little or no resources to start, Burke explained that he had to walk and solicit money to fund their initiatives. But as could be expected, this awoke the suspicions and distrust of community members which, as Burke said, proved to be an even greater challenge.

“I remember one time there was this little boy we wanted to send to school and we didn’t have any money, and what we did was go into a party with a pan and we put it on the selector board and tell him the situation, and ask him to ask the people when ‘money pull up’ come, to give what they can.”

“But in many underserved community there have been persons who have come with promises and trick us, so at first they will pull aside. Persons would pass certain remarks, saying I’m a scammer, I’m a thief, but I grew and learned that there are persons who will always have their opinion. And those are things that push me to go further because for me, positive criticism that’s all good, but negative criticisms make you want to do better,” Burke said.

Asked about the root of his desire to help others, Burke explained that he grew up seeing his mother helping other people, which translated into his personal initiatives at school.

“She normally have a cook shop and every time I would see mad people, or regular people come and beg her food, and she would give them — and I always say to myself that I would like to do something to help people like that. What I did one time when I was attending Heart Trust was ask the administrators which training programmes youth could come in to for a two weeks and get some training. And I got about 15 youth through those programmes.”

Also a vocal leader and member of National Integrity Action (NIA), Burke elaborated on how community-based interventions could have a wider national impact.

“I always say that our Government don’t realise how the crime we are seeing now is caused by lack of development and lack of resources and empowerment. So in terms of a national scale, community projects like these can pull young people to give them hope and give them something tangible that they can see where they can grow from it. In my case, I was a delinquent youth. I got expelled from school, I left school with one CXC subject, and I am now attending Excelsior Community College doing an associate degree in social work,” Burke said.

The aspiring social worker spoke about some of the initiatives the foundation has undertaken that get him excited.

“The initiative I am most proud of would be our food drive, because it gives the youth arm and parents an opportunity to see the living conditions of people who are struggling or worse off than them. It is a more emotional journey when, every two months, we journey to a rural parish to give food supplies, toiletries and clothing to persons living with disabilities or persons with families who just want a push to go ahead. So sometimes when we go out there, there are persons who will break down and cry when they see the living condition of other people,” Burke said,

He added: “It’s a really emotional thing, and for me it was a life-changing experience, being that fact that I wanted to help persons in other parishes and not just my community. So it gives me an opportunity and the group as well to get more exposure and to see the wider Jamaica, and create some positive impact in persons’ lives.”

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    Services to be offered at the centre include GSAT and computer classes, homework supervision by teachers, Internet access, adult literacy programmes, as well as photocopying, faxing and printing. Opening hours are from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on weekdays and 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays for computer classes. Coordinator of the project ...

  5. Community Transformation Board Establishes Homework Centre in Parade

    Project STAR, in partnership with PwC, Universal Service Fund (USF), e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited and the Ja\u0002maica Constabulary Force, has launched the east downtown Kingston homework programme in Parade Gardens. Sharise Staines-Appleby, community services lead at Project STAR, said the programme is an initiative of the Com\u0002munity Transformation Board in Parade Gardens, which ...

  6. Creative Club and Homework Help Centre at the St ...

    The Creative Club and Homework Help Centre at the St Patrick's Foundation provides a space where children of Seaview Gardens in Kingston can get assistance with their homework and access to computers for research purposes. According to Sandrina Davis, general manager at the St. Patrick's Foundation, the Creative Club and Homework Centre ...

  7. 'Homework Centre groomed me'

    Their six homework ventres and 1 STEM Center across the island serve over 700 students from the Kingston, Spanish Town, and Savanna-la-Mar cities, with volunteer teachers assisting students from grade four to beyond high school. Tanketa Chance-Wilson, general manager of the Grace & Staff Community Development Foundation, said: "Our original ...

  8. Miss Jenny's Homework Centre paves the way in Norwood

    Here, Latoya Austin, a member of the community, stands proudly beside Brown; Chloleen Daley-Muschett, corporate communications and PR manager at Supreme Ventures Limited; and Barbara Black, a retired teacher and dedicated volunteer at the learning centre, as they cut the ribbon to officially open the Miss Jenny Homework Centre in Norwood, St James.

  9. Dela Vega City Homework Centre

    Dela Vega City Homework Centre. On today's edition of CSJP in 5, find out how a Home Work Centre has been giving life to residents of De La Vega City in St. Catherine, and surrounding communities. Presented by: Lorraine Mendez.

  10. Homework Programm starting at LifeYard

    We are happy to announce that starting April 29th 2019, we are offering another Homework Assistance Programm. Supporting educational projects in Jamaica since 2008 twitter

  11. Homework Assistance

    Homework Assistance. Homework Assistance is offered daily at select public libraries. Parents, students and other library members are given individual assistance with school assignments and/or research work. The service is delivered through library staff and/or volunteers. Posted in Uncategorized.

  12. Flow and Bridgeview foundations partner to power homework centre

    Remorseful woman beater gets suspended sentence. October 6, 2024. Todea-Kay Willis, Social Officer, Bridgeview Foundation Homework Center was also appreciative of the upgraded internet speeds and ...

  13. Homework centre opens at Barnett Lane

    Reducing food loss and waste in Jamaica's livestock sector. September 29, 2024. Earlier this week, Mc Koy, through his Le Antonio's Foundation, opened a homework centre at a section of his ...

  14. CCN Homework Center and Internet Cafe

    Jamaica; Kingston; About. We are a Homework Center and Internet Cafe catering to children of all ages. We assist children with homework in all subject areas. Saturday classes, Bus Pick-Up Service and Holiday Activities Available. Tags : #Education.

  15. Homework Centre

    The efforts of RISE Life Management Services in providing remedial education and other social intervention programmes to inner city communities, was recently strengthened by the donation of One million four hundred and twenty five thousand dollars (J$1,425,000) by Petrojam Limited. The symbolic cheque was handed over to Executive Director of ...

  16. Springfield appeals for homework centre

    The Springfield community club has about 200 members age 10 to 75. "I certainly believe this club has shown its work. It's used for pageants, meetings, awards, and civic ceremonies. Therefore, a homework centre would be welcome as it is a farming community, so education is crucial," Delbert Tomlinson, a taxi operator, told The Gleaner.

  17. Miss Jenny's Homework Centre opens as a beacon of ...

    ST JAMES, Jamaica- A beacon of hope in the form of Miss Jenny's Homework Centre is officially open in Norwood, St James courtesy of a grant awarded to Jennifer "Miss Jenny" Brown who was the ...

  18. Kiss Homework Centre

    To-date there are 15 centres. Our supervised homework centre environment aim to motivate and contribute to a sound learning platform that will enable students a smooth transitioning into the secondary level of education. comprise of teaching staff that are qualified, experienced and motivated. For further information please call 740-7166 or use ...

  19. Education Ministry Moving To Strengthen Student Homework Programme

    The Full Story. Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, says the Ministry will seek to assist schools to either implement or strengthen homework programmes for students, where necessary, when the 2015/16 academic commences in September. He also encourages schools whose students are deemed delinquent in completing homework assignments, to ...

  20. Partnership With Flow Foundation Jamaica to Power Homework Center

    Flow Foundation and Bridgeview Foundation Partner to Power Homework Center "Students in the rural community of Maryland, Gordon Town, St Andrew are enjoying increased internet speeds courtesy of the Flow Foundation which recently upgraded the internet speeds at the Bridgeview Foundation Homework Centre. The sponsored internet service is part of a larger philanthropic project by the Bridgeview ...

  21. Online Reference /Homework Assistance Service

    Online Reference /Homework Assistance Service. Persons completing research are being invited to submit their homework questions/queries via email address [email protected]. A JLS staff will contact you for any clarification to ensure that the most appropriate information resources are identified to answer your questions.

  22. Ricardo Burke just loves to look after the youth

    Ambitious service and dedication to community and nation building have been hallmark of Ricardo Burke, founder and president of Youth for Change Foundation operating from the St Catherine communi...

  23. National Standards Curriculum (NSC)

    Curriculum / Grade 1-3 / Grade 3 / Primary Level. Download File. Post:August 4, 2020. Grade 4 - 6 Resource and Technology. Curriculum / Grade 4 / Grade 4-6 / Primary Level. Download File. Post:August 4, 2020. Grade 4 - Exploratory Core - Language Arts/Science/Social Studies/Mathematics.