A Labour Day of love from YOU
MONTEGO BAY, St James–A concerned group of young Montego Bay students calling themselves the Youth Organisation for Upliftment (YOU) will fix the road leading to the Robins Nest Children’s Home, Salters Hill, St James , as their Labour Day project next week.
YOU was conceptualised last November by a group of 10 students attending the Mount Alvernia High School for Girls and Cornwall College who were prompted to help after visiting the Robin’s Nest Children’s Home.
“When we went up there we saw that if there was an emergency up there, no emergency vehicle could get up there . So we spoke to the operators of the home who said they had spoken to different bodies and nothing has been done,” said YOU’s marketing manager, Kimberly Webb.
According to Tempest Morgan, deputy managing director of YOU, the group, with the assistance of adult volunteers will be a venturing on a massive car wash and a tag drive this Saturday, in an effort to raise funds for the venture.
” We have a pre-Laboour Day project and a Labour Day project. The latter is a car wash and tag drive to be held on May 22. For the car wash we are going to be located out at the Ironshore Total gas station and for the tag drive we will have different locations,” said Morgan, who attends Mount Alvernia.
Due to the rapid growth of membership to 26 members, the group which meets weekly at the St James Youth Information Centre on Humber Avenue are seeking a larger venue.
” We decided to form the organisation and we got some of our friends and decided to have meetings, collect dues and so on. We had our first meeting at Cornwall College, but we are now meeting here (St James Youth Information Centre), but we are expected to change our location because everyday our organisation is growing and we cannot keep everybody in one room so we are going to find another place,” said Morgan.
The group which is sanctioned by the Social Development Corporation (SDC) has visited two schools where they have engaged students in motivational talks.
” We got legal by the SDC on February 4. Since then we have been having projects. We have had a school invasion where we went into schools and spoke to children about conduct. We have been to Albion High and we have been to Mount Carey Primary and Junior High we feel really proud of ourselves,” she added.
