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Children who become mothers need all the help

Spotlight Initiative supporting Women’s Centre of Jamaica maintain services for adolescent mothers during COVID-19.

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Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck and UNICEF Jamaica Country Representative Mariko Kagoshima signing a document to increase support for the national child diversion programme.
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10 December 2020
Child diversion programme receives $10m boost from UNICEF
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Special Olympics athlete and UNICEF employee Ajornie Simpson
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Supporting Special Olympics Jamaica

The Special Olympics movement is growing in Jamaica winning its athletes medals worldwide and now locally, employment!

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Minister of Education Youth and Information, Hon Fayval Williams, United Nations Children’s Fund Jamaica Country Representative, Mariko Kagoshima, other officials and children greet each other during an online session held Thursday, December 3 in observance of the International Day for People with Disabilities. The meeting was held to check-in on some of the 534 special needs students who received tablets donated by UNICEF.
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Checking-in with children with disabilities

We wanted to learn from children with special needs about how they're progressing using tablets donated by UNICEF.

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Photograph of Keino King, aged 10, who was among a group of children who became the first in Jamaican history to address a sitting of Parliament, on November 19, 2019, the day before World Children’s Day.
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Progress to #ENDviolence against children

A year after Jamaican children spoke up in Parliament, a plan of action to #ENDviolence against them is taking shape.

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Series of consultations by UNICEF and NSSC begins on World Children’s Day, November 20
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20 November 2020

UNICEF & NSSC engage students to ‘Reimagine Education’

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Arla Ajarie, teacher at the Little Bay Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland participating in the UNICEF-supported virtual instructional leadership training programme on Monday, September 7, 2020.
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Education: ensuring no child left behind

An online programme for teachers supported by UNICEF aims to improve remote learning best practices on the island.

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