by David Campbell | Jul 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” – Mother Teresa In the last two weeks we have taken children and young people from inner city communities to a beach in Portland, a waterfall in St. Elizabeth, and a botanical gardens with a river in St. Mary....
by David Campbell | Jun 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Last Saturday we took around 40 young people and leaders on a day trip to Winnifred Beach in Portland. The day was planned out with activities that would help the young people to have fun, work together on team challenges, and ultimately experience a level of freedom...
by David Campbell | Apr 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Let me introduce you to some children: Everton is 8 years old, and his prayer is for mothers and fathers in his community to be good parents. Plattini is 10, and his prayer is that people in his community would learn to say kind words. Kimani is 11, and his prayer is...
by David Campbell | Dec 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
On Thursday, children from our Kids Clubs marched around Trench Town to celebrate the Christmas story with their community. Straight after the pageant we gave awards to those children and clubs that have got the most “values stars” over the last 3 months...
by David Campbell | Nov 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
A number of volunteers could not come to help at our clubs last week, because they had the flu. We have been very stretched for team recently, so with even fewer volunteers coming we decided to re-organise the programme, keep all the club groups together at one venue,...
by David Campbell | Nov 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
One of the boys at our football club in Trench Town (who I’ll call Omar) has been doing well at clubs, earning 13 “values stars” over the last 7 weeks. Over the previous 3 months he had only earned 4, and had been sent home for disciplinary reasons...
by David Campbell | Oct 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Yesterday we held our regular weekly kids clubs, and the youth club afterwards, and it was one of those more challenging days. The groups are still forming, getting used to a new mix of personalities in each group after the summer break, and remembering what behaviour...
by David Campbell | Sep 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
“Sir – she come home!” As Shani (not her real name) arrived at club she said these words, and her face shone with joy, satisfaction, and relief. Her face had worn a very different expression a week earlier. During the games she had been withdrawn and...
by David Campbell | Sep 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Today I had a meeting with leaders from Fusion Jamaica’s youth programme to plan what we will be doing over the coming weeks. We met in a patty shop in Crossroads (in the middle of Kingston). Half way through our meeting a young man came up and tapped me on the...
by David Campbell | Feb 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
I was standing on East Road, part of Trench Town, with dreams of running a Basketball programme for disenfranchised young people, that would use the sport to teach them important life lessons from the Bible and help prepare them for adulthood. Across the street was a...
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