Supporting Organisations

 

We have been in communication with a number of government agencies and private businesses regarding financial sponsorship of the planned activities, and free services to the young women via the project, as the girls have now matured out of the care system and are no longer eligible for interventions from the state.

 

We have already made partnership and sponsorship agreements with the following entities:

•  The Child Development Agency

•  The Office of the Children Advocate                                                

•  The Jamaican Association of Social Workers

•  The University of the West Indies Social Work Department

•  Jamaica National Bank

•  Jamaica National Foundation

•  The U.W.I Hospital

•  The United Theological College

•  International Case Assessment Support (ICAS)

•  Fontana Pharmacy

•  Events Products and Services

•  Blue Ember Concepts Marketing Company 

  

Successful Project Sponsorship Outcomes:

 

The United Theological College of the West Indies has offered their residential facility accommodation for the project’s six-day Behavioural Science evaluation retreat at the end of the project.

 

Blue Ember Concepts, a graphic design and marketing company, has part sponsored the project logo and branding concept.

 

Jamaica National Building Society sponsored the Step Up 4 Armadale launch and Entrepreneurship in Action Workshop on the 4th of April 2014 at Hope Zoo on the behalf of the girls becoming competent with managing aspects of their lives which relate to financial literacy and sustaining their livelihoods through entrepreneurship.

 

Jamaica National Building Society sponsored the Love and Laughter Retreat which marked the fith anniversary of the fire.

 

Jamaica National Foundation has offered a much-needed component of training of professional photography as a means of advocacy via their Resolutions Project. This is a training will help the girls gain another marketable skill and assist them to express themselves favourably. 

 

Women’s Media Watch’s Leadership and Media Training have already provided training for three of our young women and we are in negotiations to offer this to the entire population of the project.