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Preserves
manufactured by the Woodside Community Development Action
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Working
diligently in the Maroon Town Basic School, sponsored by
Maroon Town Community Enterprise, winners of the 2003
Michael Manley Award for Community Self-Reliance |
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Employees of
Maroon Town Community Enterprise peeling bananas before they
are washed, sliced, fried and bagged as “Maroon’s Pride
Banana Chips” |
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The current judges are: Dr Peta-Anne Baker, Lecturer in Social Work
at the University of the West Indies (Chief Judge); Ms Rosalyn
Campbell, lecturer, entrepreneur and management consultant; Mr
Derrick Gayle, Coordinator of Environmental Programmes of the EFJ;
Mr Horace Levy, Lecturer in Social Work at the UWI; Dr John Maxwell,
former Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the UWI; Mr Claude
Robinson, Senior Fellow, Research and Policy Group and Lecturer in
Business Communication at the Mona School of Business, UWI; and Mr
Richard Troupe, Executive Director of the Hope for Children
Development Company.
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At judging of
the 2005 short-listed entries, Mrs Linette Wilks,
facilitator of the Bowden Pen Farmers’ Association, EFJ
Environmental Conservation awardee, shows judges (from left)
Dr John Maxwell (chief), Rosalyn Campbell and Claude
Robinson an interesting object in the sky |
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Community Self-Reliance Awards 2000-2007
The Michael Manley Foundation’s first major event was the inaugural
presentation of the annual Michael Manley Award for Community
Self-Reliance, on August 1 (Emancipation Day), 2000. The awards
presentation has been staged since then at the Little Theatre every
Emancipation Day. The winners and Guest Speakers have been as
follows:
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Year |
Awardees |
Principal
Activities |
Guest Speaker |
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2000 |
Manchioneal Community Club
Portland |
Broiler Meat production,
sports & culture |
Mr
Randall Robinson, PresidentTransAfrica Forum, USA |
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2001 |
Cave Island Citizens Assn Trelawny |
Water supply, sanitation, etc. |
Dr
Ralph Gonsalves,
Prime Minister, St Vincent & the Grenadines
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2002
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Woodside Community Dev’pment Action Group, St Mary
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Wide range of activities |
Prof. Rex Nettleford,
Vice Chancellor, U. of the W. Indies |
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2003 |
Maroon Town Community
Enterprise – St James |
Banana and plantain chips production |
Rt
Hon. P.J. Patterson,
Prime Minister |
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2004 |
Amity Hall Development Committee, St James
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Creating own piped water supply system |
MsDiane Abbott, MP
U.K. Parliamentarian
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2005 |
Sturge Town Community Dev’pment Council,
St Ann
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Wide range of activities |
Mr
Woodrow Mitchell,
Mng Dir, Walkers Wood Caribbean Foods
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2006 |
Jeffrey Town Farmers Assn, St Mary
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Farming, etc. |
Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, Prime Minister |
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2007 |
Association of Clubs Westmoreland |
Wide range of activities |
Revd Ernle Gordon, Rector, St Mary the Virgin Anglican
Church |
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EFJ Awards 2004-2007
Since 2004, the Environmental Foundation
of Jamaica (EFJ) has partnered with the Michael Manley Foundation by
donating a cash prize to the project entered for the Michael Manley
Award for Community Self-Reliance with the best credentials in
Environmental Conservation or Child Survival and Development, the
two causes to which the EFJ is devoted. The EFJ Awards have gone as
follows:
| Year |
Awardees |
Category |
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2004 |
Amity Hall Development Committee – St James |
Environmental Conservation |
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2005 |
Bowden Pen Farmers Association – St Thomas |
Environmental Conservation |
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2006 |
Holy Trinity Basic School – St Andrew |
Child Survival & Development |
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2007 |
Hampstead Water Supply Upgrade – St Mary |
Environmental Conservation |
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The Michael Manley Award
for
Community Self-Reliance
Do you have a community project?
Is your project self-reliant?
CLOSING DATE –
MAY 31
The winning project will receive the Michael Manley Trophy and
$200,000 cash prize on Emancipation Day (August 1) 2008.
The project should:
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exemplify the
Jamaican tradition of community involvement and self-help;
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be in operation for
at least two years;
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have the capacity to
sustain itself;
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involve and have
significant impact on community members;
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add economic value
to the community; and
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where appropriate,
provide equal opportunity for participation by men and women
without gender bias.
Other points of merit to projects that
Special EFJ Award
There will also be a
special Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) Award of $100,000
for the project with the best credentials in Environmental
Conservation or Child Survival & Development
All entries must be
submitted by
MAY 31, 2008,
to
The Michael Manley Foundation
1A Hope Boulevard,
Kingston 6
Telephone 927 2288 / 927 0563 / 977 0770; Fax 702 3588
.e-mail:
mmfoundation@cwjamaica.com
Click
here to download Community Self-Reliance entry form
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