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Sihle Atkinson
Blog post
22 March 2022
U-Reporter names chatline service “U-Matter”
Sihle Atkinson is the U-Reporter who suggested the name “U-Matter”, voted by U-Reporters as the name for U-Report’s mental health chatline service.
Photograph of Damoie Byfield, aged 16, at a community centre where he receives mentoring under the UNICEF/Peace Management Initiative (PMI) Behavioural Mentorship Programme, near to his home in Kingston, Jamaica.
Blog post
21 December 2020
Mentorship helps schoolboy escape violence
From school suspensions to running for his life, how mentorship is now helping Damoie, 16, realise his potential in life.
Kenard Swaby, National Secondary Students’ Council (NSSC)
Blog post
07 October 2020
My formula to coping in COVID-19 as a student
From being the kind of student who is always on point at school, in COVID-19 I was struggling even to remember words to form paragraphs.
Jada Browne National Secondary Students’ Council (NSSC)
Blog post
06 October 2020
This pandemic made me a mother to my little sisters
Balancing helping my family with trying to reach university
Keneisha Henry National Secondary Students’ Council (NSSC)
Blog post
06 October 2020
Now more than ever, students are desperate to be heard
Students who experienced learning in COVID-19 could be who the Education Transformation Commission needs to help plan for the future.
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Blog post
05 October 2020
A back-to-school like no other
Student mental health struggles in COVID-19
Photograph of Shaneille Hall from the CPFSA Children's Advisory Panel
Blog post
26 July 2019
Being in state care made me stronger
I feel good in myself when I can sit down and listen to someone who has a similar experience to me being in state care.
Jerome Palmer a mentor for youth in correctional facilities, photographed at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona were he is enrolled as a student.
Blog post
23 July 2019
From ‘bad’ student to a leader and mentor
I was raised in West Kingston. Growing up where I did, I soon realised as a child that you got more support being deviant than being good.
Photograph of Minister of Health & Wellness Christopher Tufton (in beige vest) and health workers examining a potential mosquito-breeding site.
Blog post
12 June 2019
How U-Report helped the Ministry of Health respond to dengue
If someone had asked me six months ago about the fastest way to reach young people in Jamaica, I would probably have said Instagram.
Cameron Campbell from the Peace Management Initiative (PMI), and Tavoy Miller, Fight for Peace, attending the First Regional Dialogue of Latin America and the Caribbean ‘On the Road to Equality’: 30 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Blog post
22 January 2019
From being expelled to representing Jamaica abroad
Being kicked out of school, sitting at home with nothing to do, showed me the importance of education.