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Venturing Into Nonprofit For a "Ja'mazin" Cause

9/24/2014

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I was approached to share my experiences with the inspiring and helpful website, Graduates in Transition. It is a space where young people can share their stories and struggles of transition...and how they overcame it positively. It was an honour to be a part of this wonderful movement created by Rebecca Dirnfeld. I've included an excerpt of my story below. If you'd like to read the full article, please click here. 

"It took me my twenties to realize the only thing that was stopping me was belief in myself.
 
I never knew my calling was a Jamaican inner-city by a garbage dump, until fourteen years later. 

I am just beginning to embark on an exciting new endeavor in the non-profit world. Yet, my heart knew this was my true path fourteen years ago. I was sixteen years old, it was summer break and I was volunteering in Jamaica’s capital city, Kingston. I spent that summer in an inner-city community called Riverton. Riverton is one of Jamaica’s most impoverished communities; built up along the edges of the Kingston landfill.  I saw children, just younger than me, not having the opportunities that I took for grated. And it greatly impacted me. I traveled down to Jamaica two more times and raised around $10,000 in my youth..." 

Read the full article here. 
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