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2009 November 2009: Ganley Lecture Focusses on Afghanistan April 24, 2009 Speaker Pat Mooney asks “Who Really Feeds the World?” March 9, 2009
2008 June 2008: Peterborough Volunteers Encouraged by Work of Jamaicans Jamaican-Canadian Author to Read at Art Gallery September 2008: International Poverty and Foreign Policy Issues All Candidates’ Debate
October 2008: Lecture Focuses on Poverty & Violence in Jamaica
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November 4, 2009 Ganley Lecture Focusses on Afghanistan The Fifth Annual Ganley Lecture coming up on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 will feature special guest speaker Jennifer Rowell, a Peterborough native currently working as Advocacy Coordinator for CARE in Afghanistan. The Lecture hosted by Jamaican Self-Help (JSH) will begin at 7:30pm at Market Hall (336 George St. N.). Admission is free, and childcare will be available during the event. Jennifer Rowell has worked on human rights issues since 1998. In Afghanistan, she leads research and policy dialogue on the rights of women and girls, the militarization of aid, and civil-military relations in the country. Before going to Afghanistan, Mrs. Rowell worked for five years with CARE UK, based in London, supporting a dozen country offices across Africa, Latin America and Asia (including Afghanistan) to defend the rights of slum-dwellers, then was the Assistant Country Director for CARE in Chad, overseeing a program ensuring that the basic needs, security, and dignity of over 60,000 Sudanese refugees were met. Mrs. Rowell is a graduate of Adam Scott CVI, the University of Toronto, and Cranfield University in the UK. She worked with JSH in Kingston in 1990 and in Long Road in 1994. The Ganley Fund for Innovation was launched in 2005 to mark Jamaican Self-Help’s 25th anniversary. The fund is a tangible means to pursue the commitment of John and Rosemary Ganley, the founders of Jamaican Self-Help, towards education and reflection. The Annual Ganley Lecture is a highlight of the Ganley Fund. Jamaican Self-Help is a charitable organization based in Peterborough, Ontario. It supports education, health, skills training, and community development in Jamaica. JSH also raises awareness and undertakes global education initiatives in the Peterborough area through the awareness trips to Jamaica it organizes and the Youth Action Teams it leads. The international development agency is partially funded by the Canadian International Development Agency.
April 24, 2009 Speaker Pat Mooney asks “Who Really Feeds the World?”
On Tuesday May 5th 2009 at 7:00pm, Jamaican Self-Help (JSH) will host a public lecture at St. Peter’s Secondary School (733 Parkhill Road W.), where Pat Mooney, Executive Director of the ETC Group, will talk on ‘People’s Power in the Global Food System’. Mooney’s speech is part of a week-long international youth conference on food sovereignty held by the JSH South-North Youth Policy Project (SNYPP). Pat Mooney has worked for over 30 years with community organizations on international trade and development issues related to agriculture and biodiversity. He is the author and co-author of several books on the politics of biotechnology & biodiversity. Mooney received the Right Livelihood Award (the “Alternate Nobel Prize”) in Swedish Parliament in 1985. As well, in 1998 he received the Pearson Peace Prize from Canada’s Governor General and received the American "Giraffe Award" given to people "who stick their necks out". Pat Mooney has no university training, but is widely regarded as an authority on agricultural biodiversity and new technology issues. Amber Maynard is a recent high school graduate from Kenner Collegiate. She is currently part of the SNYPP Conference Organizing Committee. “The first time that I heard Pat Mooney speak was in Ottawa for a national roundtable discussion about environmental justice and international co-operation. I found his speech captivating and motivational,” Maynard said. Mooney was one of the founders of RAFI (Rural Advancement Foundation International), whose name was changed to ETC Group (pronounced "etcetera"group) in 2001. ETC Group is a small international CSO addressing the impact of new technologies on rural communities. SNYPP will bring youth together from Canada, Jamaica, and Nicaragua, to create a shared policy vision around food sovereignty. The two main components of SNYPP are:
JSH is an organization based in Peterborough Ontario, made up of Canadians working in solidarity to foster the development of healthy Jamaican communities through partnership based on mutual respect, understanding and a shared vision of self-determination; and foster an understanding of global forces North and South and their interconnectedness.
March 9, 2009 Youth show their commitmentAt 5am on Wednesday March 11th a group of committed local high school students will begin their journey to Jamaica for the annual Jamaican Self-Help (JSH) awareness trip programme. 16 students from four area high schools and three local teachers will head to Kingston, Jamaica for a 2-week programme which includes volunteer placements, Jamaican speakers and other leadership and learning activities. Kenner CVI student Amber Maynard is looking forward to her first trip to Jamaica, “I'm thrilled that I have this opportunity to partake in the JSH awareness trip. I feel this is a chance for me to put my words into action and help build a better understanding of another culture. From talking to past participants and Jamaican residents, it is apparent to me that the impact and unique experience this organization provides is one like none other."
In addition to the students travelling for the first time, there will be three returning students who will act as youth leaders for the programme, “I will be aiming to set a good example for the rest of the group. I will be there to support them and give them suggestions, using what knowledge and skills I have obtained to help them to get the most of what they can from this trip", says Sarah McInnis, a St. Peter’s Secondary School student. “I really cannot express how excited and fortunate I am in going back to Jamaica, because it is a place that is now a part of who I am. Having gone last year, it was an experience that truly changed my life and one that has, and will continue to, shape me as a person.” “Sarah’s reaction is one that we hear over and over again from students who return from this trip,” remarks Executive Director, Marisa Kaczmarczyk. “While the programme helps Jamaicans, it is also our goal to have an impact on young Canadians and help motivate them to continue their involvement in positive social change, locally or globally.” Caileigh McKnight, was a PCVS student when she first joined Jamaican Self-Help. She is now studying at Trent and is one of the trip leaders and a JSH Board member: “I think the group of students going this year show a promise towards our future!! They are an intelligent and mature group of youth and I'm excited to be going on such a trip with them. Even though I'm in school learning about international development, I can't wait to go back to get the 'real' sense of it again. I'm hoping just to learn more, see more and meet more amazing people…” Each year between 15 and 30 young people from Peterborough and surrounding communities participate in this in-depth educational trip. Past participants have come from most of the local public and Catholic high schools. -30-
PETERBOROUGH VOLUNTEERS ENCOURAGED BY WORK OF JAMAICANS- June 3, 2008 Three volunteers with the Peterborough group Jamaican Self-Help (JSH) are home from a recent monitoring trip to Kingston, Jamaica where they met with partners to review recent progress. “It was very edifying to see so many people working for peace and education in the troubled neighbourhoods in Kingston”, said JSH board member Dawn Straka. JSH supports seven partner groups with approximately $160,000 each year, raised from Canadian donors and matched by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Projects include remedial reading & literacy, vocational training, community and peace-building, and youth-at-risk programmes. “Natural disasters such as hurricanes, and social violence and desperate poverty present immense challenges to our partners and the communities in which they live,” said Chris Boriss, also a JSH Board member. “We are so encouraged by their work, commitment and courage.” Volunteer Paula Wagar focused on three inner-city schools. “The schools are the safest places in these areas,” she said. “We sponsor basic literacy programmes there, as well as art, music and sports activities which build self-esteem and attract the children to come to school.” A youth group from Jamaican Self-Help including students from four area high schools will travel to Kingston in July for two weeks of learning about global issues and volunteer service. Jamaican Self-Help is a charitable Peterborough-based international development agency that supports education and community development projects in Jamaica, as well as global education activities in the Peterborough region.
JAMAICAN-CANADIAN AUTHOR TO READ AT ART GALLERY- June 5, 2008 Rachel Manley, award winning Jamaican-Canadian author and daughter of former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley, will read from her new work at the Art Gallery of Peterborough on Wednesday June 18th at 7.30 pm. Sponsored by the local international development agency Jamaican Self Help (JSH) in collaboration with the ZimArt Rice Lake Gallery, the evening will also feature Shona stone sculpture originating in Zimbabwe. “It is a perfect fit for us” said JSH President Joyce Mackenzie. “We celebrate Jamaican culture, and its African roots, even as we work to alleviate poverty in Jamaica”. Manley has written memoirs about her father, Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley and about growing up with her eminent grandparents, Norman and Edna Manley. Edna Manley, a sculptor, is often described as the “mother of the nation.” Rachel Manley’s new book is entitled “Horses in Her Hair: a Memoir of My Grandmother”. Her 1997 work, “Drumblair” won the Governor General’s Award for Non Fiction. There is no admission to the reading and exhibit. Doors open at 7:00pm to view the sculptures; the reading begins at 7:30pm.
Youth team to Jamaica - June 25, 2008 For the 35th time since 1984, the Peterborough- based development agency Jamaican Self Help will send a team of 3 teachers and 18 youth to Kingston, Jamaica, on July 3rd for a two-week global education programme. The trip includes volunteer placements, Jamaican speakers and other leadership and learning activities. “It is a wonderful chance to broaden one’s horizons”, said Norwood District High School teacher Rebecca Brinkman. “The students have worked hard at fundraising and they have solid community support.” Seven Norwood students and three Peterborough students will volunteer at orphanages and schools in Jamaica. They will be joined by four students from Trinity College School in Port Hope. Volunteer leader Tucker Barton says “The students have a desire to serve and to learn. Jamaica and Jamaican Self Help give them this grassroots opportunity.” Each year between 15 and 30 young people from Peterborough and surrounding communities participate in this in-depth educational trip. Past participants have come from most of the local public and Catholic high schools, and many return to involve themselves in both local and global community activities.June 19, 2008 Chesher elected new Jamaican Self-Help President Nancy Chesher, well known educator and former principal of Crestwood Secondary School, has been elected president of the international development agency, Jamaican Self- Help, at its annual meeting last night. “It is a pleasure to serve such a dynamic and outward- looking organization at this time”, said Chesher. Other executive members for 2008-9 are Joyce Mackenzie, Kate Johnston and Christine Boriss. The annual financial statements showed that Jamaican Self-Help forwarded $150,000 to Jamaican projects last year. The annual general meeting featured a reading from award winning Jamaican author Rachel Manley and an exhibit of Zimbabwean stone sculpture from ZimArt Rice Lake Gallery.
International Poverty and Foreign Policy Issues All Candidates’ Debate at Adam Scott High School Date: Friday September 19th, 2008 For Immediate Release On Wednesday October 1st, 2008 Jamaican Self-Help (JSH) and Adam Scott H.S. will be hosting an All Candidates’ Debate in the Adam Scott auditorium. Adam Scott senior students as well as senior students from several other local area high schools will be attending the debate. All four candidates have confirmed their attendance. Questions will be asked by an inter high school panel focused on foreign policy issues and international poverty, followed by open questions from the floor. The debate will run from 10:00 am until 11:30 am and will be followed by a meet and greet from 11:30 am until 12:15pm. This is an important event as it opens communication between the youth and candidates as well as gives youth the opportunity to get informed and involved with the election. “I’m very excited for the debate! The all candidates debate gives people my age, who are in their first year of voting, a real sense as to where the different parties stand as well it gives us the opportunity to talk to the candidates themselves,” said Amber Maynard from YAT. “It will be interesting to see how the different candidates approach the questions on international poverty and foreign policy issues.” The YAT project, previously known as Make Poverty History (MPH), has been in operation for over three years providing a forum for high school youth to speak out and take action against poverty. YAT has traveled to Ottawa on several occasions to attend meetings with CCIC and Members of Parliament including Peterborough’s MP Dean Del Mastro. Jamaican Self-Help is a Peterborough based registered charity established in 1980. The organization supports education, health, skills training, and community development in Jamaica. JSH also undertakes global education initiatives in the Peterborough region including awareness trips to Jamaica, in which participants gain a first hand perspective by volunteering in schools and other social institutions. JSH also works with the Youth Action Team to create awareness of related issues both locally and internationally.
Lecture Focuses on Violence & Poverty in Jamaica For Immediate release - October 29, 2008 On Wednesday November 5th 2008, Jamaican Self-Help (JSH) will be hosting the Fourth Annual Ganley Lecture with special guest speaker Angela Stultz from the S-Corner Clinic and Community Development Centre, Kingston, Jamaica. The Lecture will begin at 7:30pm at the George Street United Church (corner of George & McDonnel Sts), Peterborough. Admission is free, and childcare will be available during the event. Angela Stultz is the Executive Director of the S-Corner Clinic and Community Development Centre in Jamaica. She has extensive experience working in community development and child advocacy with a special emphasis in HIV/AIDs, child welfare, gender, crime and violence. She is currently working in Jamaica to implement programs that address the underlying causes of community level poverty with the goal of positively impacting the wider Jamaican population. “It takes a Village, plus the Neighbours, to raise a Community.” Angela will be talking about inner-city poverty and how it leads to violence. She stresses the need for social intervention programmes from local and international agencies to alleviate poverty and stop the violence. The Ganley Fund for Innovation was launched as part of Jamaican Self-Help's 25th Anniversary Celebrations: 1980-2005. The fund is a tangible means to uphold the values and vision of John and Rosemary Ganley, the founders of Jamaican Self-Help. In keeping with their commitment to education & reflection, the Ganley Fund is highlighted by the Annual Ganley Lecture, organized by Jamaican Self-Help. This very special event will bring “a global voice to Peterborough and offer the community a stimulating presentation on current cultural, social, economic and/or political issues.” Previous guest lecturers were Peggy Antrobus, Honor Ford-Smith and Fabian Brown. JSH is a Canadian charitable international development agency based in Peterborough Ontario. The organization supports education, health, skills training, and community development in Jamaica. JSH also undertakes global education initiatives in the Peterborough region including awareness trips to Jamaica, in which participants gain firsthand perspective by volunteering in schools and other social institutions. JSH also has a Youth Action Team (YAT) to create awareness of related issues both locally and internationally. The agency was established in 1980 and is partially funded by the Canadian International Development Agency. |
