Canadian mannequin Winnie Harlow groups up with PUMA to offer help for Jamaican teen mothers

Canadian supermodel and PUMA ambassador Winnie Harlow just lately teamed up with the model to offer help to Jamaican teen moms via 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 degree of teenage being pregnant in Jamaica on the time. The muse presently operates beneath the Ministry of Tradition, Gender, Leisure and Sport.

Beneath this system, women who’ve dropped out of faculty as a consequence of being pregnant are allowed to proceed their training on the ladies’s facilities nearest to them for no less than one time period and are subsequently returned to the formal college system after the beginning of their infants.

WCFJ has 10 predominant facilities and 4 output stations throughout Jamaica — together with the SWC. Harlow stated she selected SWC to make her presentation in honor of her father, Windsor Younger, who was born in Westmoreland.

“I needed to present 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 women,” she wrote in a put up on Instagram.

“I used to be raised principally by my mom. I believe it’s essential to honour and empower ladies. Thanks @Puma for serving to me donate $20k USD to additional the wonderful work on the Heart. These younger ladies and their infants are our future,” she wrote.

The donation, which can profit all of the facilities, will cowl the price of tuition, college 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 will probably be directed by veteran journalist and British Broadcasting Company (BBC) broadcaster Laura Trevelyan, who has volunteered her providers.