The Companions For Youth Basis returns as an official charity associate of the upcoming Grace Jamaican Jerk Competition. The pageant might be held on November 13 on the Miramar Regional Park.
A pillar within the South Florida space, Companions For Youth focuses on the emotional, social, educational, and cultural growth of youngsters and adolescents in South Florida’s Jamaican diaspora, and in Jamaica. The inspiration was began over 30 years in the past as a ending service for kids and adolescents who emigrated to the US and suffered from tradition shock. Companions For Youth has advanced over time to incorporate the annual Miss Jamaica Florida pageant, which focuses on personhood over magnificence, in addition to scholarships which have propelled recipients into profitable careers from medication to regulation and the whole lot in-between, and seminars bearing on delicate and vital matters akin to psychological well being and navigating the perils of social media.
Below charismatic chairman Steve Higgins, Companions For Youth has huge plans for the upcoming jerk pageant. “Companions for Youth might be giant, in cost, and noticeable,” proclaims Higgins. “You’ll see us in our tents with our branded polo shirts, serving to patrons study what they should find out about our tradition.”
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Additionally a tenor soloist, musician, public speaker, actor, director and producer, Higgins has made a reputation for himself as an envoy of Jamaican people tradition, notably inside the realm of music. He has traveled to 5 completely different continents instructing members of the Jamaican diaspora, and the Jamaica-curious alike, songs of previous.
Higgins says he’s bringing an analogous vitality to the pageant the place the inspiration’s most important theme might be passing on traditional Jamaican video games to the youthful generations. “I’m speaking bull within the pen, dandy shandy, brown lady within the ring,” Higgins excitedly lists off a handful of the video games he plans on instructing. “A number of these items we clearly have misplaced, as a result of my interviewer doesn’t even know them,” he exclaims, pointedly.
The Companions for Youth Basis is a 501(C)(3) non-profit group. Companions for Youth is the non-profit sponsor of the annual Grace Jamaican Jerk Competition, with a portion of the occasion’s proceeds devoted to the Anthony Baker Scholarship Fund and different initiatives spearheaded by the inspiration.