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Feliesha an Eve for Life client with her children

Health promotion

For every Jamaican child to get the best possible start to life

Photograph of a child who attends a special needs school in Jamaica

Social protection

A fair chance in life for every child in Jamaica

A photograph of Kingston schoolgirls

Lifelong learning

Quality education for all children

Photograph of a girl at school in Jamaica

Safety and justice

Protecting children from all forms of violence

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

UNICEF & NSSC engage students to ‘Reimagine Education’

Series of consultations begins on World Children’s Day, November 20

In Jamaica, too many children do not have this protection. Their lives are being stained by violence – often at the hands of people they love and trust.

Childhood in Jamaica: Stained by violence

For too many Jamaican children their lives are being stained by violence – often at the hands of people they love and trust.

Students sit under a tree to use the internet while observing the recommended social distance at Little Bay Primary and Infant school. On Monday, September 7,2020. Little Bay is a mainly fishing community located in the parish of Westmoreland, the western end of the island of Jamaica. An online programme for teachers supported by UNICEF aims to improve remote learning best practices on the island, where schools were closed due to COVID-19. The pandemic put the spotlight on inequities in the local education

Education on hold

Across the region, the prolonged closure of schools means that 137 million boys and girls continue to miss out on their education

Minister of Labour & Social Security, Karl Samuda, (right) and Mariko Kagoshima, UNICEF Jamaica Country Representative (left) sign $40m grant funding partnership agreement to boost PATH Programme.

PATH Gets Big Boost From UNICEF

$40m to support most vulnerable families cope with the impact of COVID-19.

UNICEF Advocate for Children Affected by War Ishmael Beah speaks with young people at the project site of the UNICEF-supported NGO Children First, in Spanish Town in the parish of St. Catherine. Children First provides remedial education, skills training and other programmes for at-risk children.

Jobs: Social service workforce consultancy

Addressing limited data about the social service workforce and systems to improve services and support to vulnerable children and families.

The Private Sector Organisation Of Jamaica (PSOJ) in partnership with UNICEF and the Office of the Children’s Advocate (OCA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the launch of a National Child Helpline. Seated from left are: Mariko Kagoshima, UNICEF Jamaica Country Representative; Diahann Gordon Harrison, Children’s Advocate and Greta Bogues, Interim CEO, PSOJ. Looking on are, from left, Ytske van Winden, International Child Protection Consultant, UNICEF; Latoya Minott-Hall, Public Education and Special

PSOJ partner with OCA, UNICEF to launch children's helpline

Providing a safe space for persons aged under-18 affected by COVID-19