Using Art to relay our message, we commission and deliver ambitious educational and outreach programs that raise ecological, economic and social issues to the general public and local community. The Foundation acknowledges the need for incorporating marine educational programmes into the school curriculum to reinforce the importance of marine conversation and raising awareness on the issues currently affecting the local marine environment.
Our Outreach programmes extend to students from different levels of education, and consists of in-class presentations, site visits to the Foundation, and the establishment of the ‘Parrotfish Awareness Campaign’ as well as partnering with International organizations such as the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (LOF) for the implementation of the J.A.M.I.N Programme.
J.A.M.I.N Programme
Jamaica Awareness of Mangroves in Nature (J.A.M.I.N) was an educational programme carried out in partnership with the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, geared at teaching students in grades ten and eleven of the importance of mangrove ecosystems. The Jamaican leg of the programme was initiated in Trelawny, at St. Hilda’s and William Knibb High School. This September, it was introduced to Port Antonio High and Titchfield High. The programme entailed a two day lecture series, as well as a field trip to the mangrove forest adjacent to the Foundation office, and ongoing in-class growth experiments.