Jamaica Diaspora Day is celebrated online

The Jamaica Diaspora Taskforce Action Network (JDTAN), in association with Jamaicans.com, recently hosted Jamaica Diaspora Day Live Online – its first-ever virtual and global all-day event of this nature.

It featured 11 sessions over 13 hours delivered by the diaspora task forces, along with several diaspora organisations and partners in Jamaica. Several projects are earmarked for this year:

The Education Taskforce will host the annual Advancement in Education Summit virtually in July. This will be led by Chair, Dwayne Dyce and Lesleyann Samuel.

The Learning and Development Taskforce will hold a repeat session of the Future Ready Educators JAMINAR held on Diaspora Day because of the session reaching capacity as a result of the overwhelming interest. JAMINARS are led by Chair, Ortavia ManningDixon.

The LASCO Chin Foundation COVID Care package project, supported by JDTAN, has now distributed more than 14,000 packages. The project will expand to support back-to- school activities in a few weeks. This effort is led by COVID Response Taskforce Chair, Sherie Davis.

The Environment and Climate Resilience Taskforce is co-organising a Caribbean tree-planting competition in collaboration with the Caribbean Philanthropic Alliance. This effort is led by Co-Chair, Stephen Snider.

The Youth Policy and Advocacy Leader Taskforce held a successful Diplomacy Day event with the Institute of Caribbean Studies, during Diaspora Week. The team is focused on diplomacy recommendations, to shape policy around Caribbean engagement as part of H.R. 4939. This effort is led by Chair, Scherie Murray.