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Kristofferson started his company, University College Ambassadors (UCA) Jamaica. His concept: a youth marketing and job placement agency connecting university and vocational students with corporate Jamaica.
As part of USAID’s Neighbors, Partners, Friends campaign, we are celebrating young leaders, civil society, and the private and public sector actors who are helping raise the standards of Jamaican youth within their communities and broader society.
Jerome, the communications coordinator at the Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL), is one half of a dynamic duo that hosts the program JASL After Dark, an online talk-show that airs live on Wednesdays at 8pm. The program, which began in 2018, aims to reach key populations through social media platforms and provide them with vital information concerning their sexual health. The program also aims to normalize conversations about HIV issues.
From 2014–2020, more than 2,400 juveniles in Jamaica benefited from USAID’s support under A New Path, a project of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI).
Fifty-two-year-old Milton Stewart beams with joy as he takes his place behind the steering wheel. As one of the official drivers for the Ministry of Health within the western division of Jamaica, Stewart has operated many vehicles during his 30-year career, including trucks, buses and ambulances. Few assignments, however, are as meaningful to him as the job he now has.
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