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EFJ
contribution
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Jeffrey Town
community volunteers sending wheelbarrows with material for
their new multi-purpose building |
Carlton Gordon
(right), conceptualiser of Amity Hall Water Supply, and
community leader Sherman Thomas walking the pipeline that
gravity-feeds the water into households |
The culture of self-reliance has been a feature of community life
from post-Emancipation Jamaica as the poor struggled to make a life
for themselves and their families under very difficult
circumstances. The culture and practice survive in many of our
communities and the Michael Manley Foundation is playing a
significant role in preserving and promoting it.
In the communities that have featured in the Michael Manley Award
for Community Self-Reliance, citizens of all generations work
together to improve their economic wellbeing, social conditions,
educational standards, environmental practices, physical health and
cultural expression.
Invariably, those communities enjoy extraordinary degrees of peace
and tranquility.
Communities that have won the awards report that, as a result of
mass media coverage of the event, they have gained greater
recognition and have benefited further through contributions in cash
and kind from Jamaica and overseas.
Awardees, 2000-2006
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Carifolk
Singers performing at the presentation of the 2004
Michael Manley Award for Community Self-Reliance |
Della
Manley performing with Richard Patterson at the
inaugural Michael Michael Manley Award for Community
Self-Reliance in 2000 |
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