JAYECAN-Jamaican Youth Empowerment through Culture, Arts and Nationalism

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JAYECAN-Jamaican Youth Empowerment through Culture, Arts and Nationalism JAYECAN is a non-profit organization that seeks to involve the youth of Jamaica in areas of the arts, culture, and volunteerism for change.

JAYECAN, stands for Jamaican Youth Empowerment through Culture Arts and Nationalism. It started in December of 2013 by three university students. The original idea was a very farfetched approach which involved the creation of several youth development centers across the island that would be led by youths. The reality hit home when the founding members drafted a proposal and submitted it to an inte

rnational social enterprising agency called Echoing Green who turned down the idea. The disappointment never really did affect the group’s progress as attempts were made to revisit the blue prints. By early 2014, the founders, Abrahim Simmonds, Alex Sterling and Ansel Pulchan, met again to reconstruct the concept of JAYECAN and how it would operate as a youth led initiative. They concluded that JAYECAN would operate under four arms: The arts, Culture, Education and Volunteerism. After this was finalized, volunteers had already begun to offer up themselves for service. Today, JAYECAN creates teams, builds projects and executes them within the social contexts of the various target populations. We have volunteers from various tertiary level institutions including the UWI, UTECH and The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. Not only do we seek to empower youth by bringing activities to them, but we also have decided to bring empowerment in the lights of endorsements. Where we pledge to highlight young people who have decided to make a difference by pursuing their passion or leading social change initiatives.

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14 Gibraltar Camp Way
Kingston

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Monday 09:00 - 16:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 16:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 16:00
Thursday 09:00 - 16:00
Friday 09:00 - 16:00

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JAYECAN, stands for Jamaican Youth Empowerment through Culture Arts and Nationalism. It started in December of 2013 by three university students. The original idea was a very farfetched approach which involved the creation of several youth development centers across the island that would be led by youths. The reality hit home when the founding members drafted a proposal and submitted it to an international social enterprising agency called Echoing Green who turned down the idea. The disappointment never really did affect the group’s progress as attempts were made to revisit the blue prints. By early 2014, the founders, Abrahim Simmonds, Alex Sterling and Ansel Pulchan, met again to reconstruct the concept of JAYECAN and how it would operate as a youth led initiative. They concluded that JAYECAN would operate under four arms: The arts, Culture, Education and Volunteerism. After this was finalized, volunteers had already begun to offer up themselves for service. Today, JAYECAN creates teams, builds projects and executes them within the social contexts of the various target populations. We have volunteers from various tertiary level institutions including the UWI, UTECH and The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. Not only do we seek to empower youth by bringing activities to them, but we also have decided to bring empowerment in the lights of endorsements. Where we pledge to highlight young people who have decided to make a difference by pursuing their passion or leading social change initiatives.