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Citizens for the Advancement of Community Development (CACD) – a local non-profit organization operating in Mississauga – has initiated a fund-raising campaign to help build a lasting framework for change in Jamaica.
CACD is planning a trip to some of the island’s most at-risk neighbourhoods, including problematic areas like Trench Town and inner city communities in Montego Bay, taking 12 motivated and driven young leaders to offer programming that includes healthy living, life skills, counselling, parenting, employment skills, entrepreneurship and money management.
More importantly, said leaders will instruct Jamaican teachers on how to provide such programming, so that Jamaican children will be able to benefit from said activities long after the trip has ended.
CACD Executive Director, Ron Cunningham, who is organizing the trip, noted that “Our framework will encompass a broad range of topics that will sow the seeds of a new generation of healthy, well-rounded and upwardly mobile Jamaicans. This will begin a domino effect, where the Jamaican youth will adopt a sense of civic responsibility, and develop leadership capabilities.”
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The organization is also going to bring an Ontario police officer to instruct the local law enforcers on the Canadian Community Policing model,
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