Haile Selassie, Donald Quarrie..
Haile Selassie High and Donald Quarrie High emerged champions of the Multi-Care Foundation's annual mixed-team basketball and girls' football competitions, respectively, at Breezy Castle Complex in Kingston, yesterday.
On the final day of the two-day event, Donald Quarrie edged Kingston Technical High 1-0 to win the football title in the senior section, and Haile Selassie defeated Kingston Technical High 14-2 in the mixed (girls and boys) basketball final in the senior section.
Both ...
ENGAGING CHILDREN ON READ ACRO..
Ann Astwood (left) Programmes Manager at The MultiCare Foundation, high-fives a student of Franklyn Town Primary School following the reading of books to the students by her and volunteer Cadeisha Campbell of Youth Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) Ltd. The MultiCare Foundation team, supported by its sister organisation Youth Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) Ltd and employee volunteers of the ICD Group, read to and interacted with children ranging in ages from two to 10 years at ...
Grad Student from Jamaica Used..
Melissa Farquharson grew up in the inner city of Kingston, Jamaica. She says it was a tough place to be a girl with a lot of ambition.
But driven by her love of sports, and fueled by her own tenacity and the help of some avid supporters, Farquharson found her way to UT and a better life. She will graduate Thursday, May 12, with her master’s degree in sport management.
Where she grew up, Farquharson said, many girls have very low self-esteem. They aren’t taught to be independent and often ...
NEO Agreement signed by IDB &a..
10,000 Jamaican youth to receive skills training and employment opportunities
Jamaica is now the 12th country to formally join New Employment Opportunities (NEO), a pioneering regional youth employment initiative in which businesses, governments and civil society in Latin America and the Caribbean are uniting efforts to forge effective and sustainable youth employment solutions. NEO is an initiative led by the IDB – through the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) and the Labour Market Unit ...
YUTE MENTORING A LIFE CHANGER ..
In 2010 Ann-Marie Baker was the mother of an eight year old daughter and two sons, aged one and three years. She was unemployed, unqualified and one of so many inner city youngsters facing a bleak future. Though she had completed high school, her mother – also a single mother – could not afford the exam fees, so Ann-Marie was not able to sit her CXC examinations. Only one of the three fathers of her children was helping to support his child. Her only other income was from her occasional ...
YUTE EXPANDS INCOME OPPORTUNIT..
Following the September launch of the YUTE Microwork programme, Youth Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) has further expanded access to online work opportunities for its beneficiaries, with a two-day training workshop held in the YUTE Microwork Centre at Rise Life Management Services on East Street, on November 28th and 29th 2015.
The YUTE Microwork programme has seen 45 young people from underserved Jamaican communities access work opportunities through an online platform developed by ...
YUTE PROTÉGÉS STRENGTHEN SER..
Protégés of Youth Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) who have been trained in Food Preparation, Mixology and related skills are continuing to provide support for special events on the culinary calendar. In 2015, they played a valuable role in Restaurant Week 2015. A total of 18 young people were employed for the event by participating restaurants, the fifth year in a mutually beneficial partnership between YUTE and Restaurant Week.
As they prepared for the event, Stephanie Scott, ...
JMMB SUPPORTS SELF-EMPLOYMENT ..
The spirit of entrepreneurship has always been strong among Jamaicans – from the small farmer, and shopkeeper, to those who founded the small family businesses, which grew into many of today's leading corporations. Just as strong has been an enthusiastic embrace of modern technology.
Now an innovative new project by Youth Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) is building upon these two areas of strength-entrepreneurial spirit and technology- to help young Jamaicans access key earning ...
From Mentorship to Friendship
It is never easy for anyone to make the decision to seek guidance (become a mentee) or to give guidance (becoming become a mentor) and we were no different.
NHT BUILDS THE NATION WITH YUT..
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts,” words of Winston Churchill, could summarize the Youth Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) programme, which continues to make a positive impact in the Jamaican society.
As a charitable organisation, YUTE’s continued success cannot be achieved without strategic partners, who guide and provide critical support to this path-breaking initiative.
The National Housing Trust (NHT) is one such ...
UPLIFTING JAMAICA’S AT-RISK ..
The Mission of Youth Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) may seem an impossible one when we consider the challenges of youth unemployment in our underserved Jamaican communities, across the Caribbean and indeed worldwide. Yet we are making positive progress with determination, ingenuity and strong partnerships, and we continue to move forward with confidence and optimism.
YUTE has undertaken to intervene in the lives of at-risk youth and to produce graduates with the values, skills, ...
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