Canadian supermodel and PUMA ambassador Winnie Harlow not too long ago teamed up with the model to supply assist to Jamaican teen moms by means of the Girls’s Centre Basis of Jamaica’s program for adolescent moms.
Harlow, who’s of Jamaican descent, partnered with PUMA to donate US$20,000 to this system throughout a go to to the Savanna-la-Mar Girls’s Centre (SWC). PUMA additionally introduced 20 adolescent moms with activewear.
This system was established in 1978 in response to a excessive stage of teenage being pregnant in Jamaica on the time. The muse presently operates underneath the Ministry of Tradition, Gender, Leisure and Sport.
Beneath this system, ladies who’ve dropped out of faculty as a consequence of being pregnant are allowed to proceed their training on the girls’s facilities nearest to them for at the least one time period and are subsequently returned to the formal faculty system after the delivery of their infants.
WCFJ has 10 principal facilities and 4 output stations throughout Jamaica — together with the SWC. Harlow mentioned she selected SWC to make her presentation in honor of her father, Windsor Younger, who was born in Westmoreland.
“I wished to provide again to someplace in my father’s group. With out Savanalamar Westmoreland, he wouldn’t be right here and I wouldn’t both. I see a lot of myself in these younger girls,” she wrote in a post on Instagram.
“I used to be raised principally by my mom. I believe it’s essential to honour and empower girls. Thanks @Puma for serving to me donate $20k USD to additional the wonderful work on the Middle. These younger girls and their infants are our future,” she wrote.
The donation, which can profit all of the facilities, will cowl the price of tuition, faculty provides, and provides for infants of the teenager moms, together with different wants that come up.
Throughout Harlow’s go to, there was additionally an announcement that PUMA plans to do a documentary on the WCFJ’s efforts to curb teen being pregnant in Jamaica.
The documentary might be directed by veteran journalist and British Broadcasting Company (BBC) broadcaster Laura Trevelyan, who has volunteered her companies.
