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 During the games she had been withdrawn and...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...
by David Campbell | Oct 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
Last weekend four young men from our youth programme were interviewed on a radio show, and afterwards the presenter sent me an e-mail about his time with them. In it he wrote: “David, I so appreciate after rapping with these young men from Fusion youth club, the...
by David Campbell | Apr 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
Andrina (not her real name) is one of the young people in our youth programme. She is 14, but we have known her since she was 3. She was abandoned by her mother who left to try and find greener pastures in America when Andrina was only 2. Her grandmother took her, but...
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