THE CORONATION OF H.I.M EMPEROR HAILE ... - Rasta Ites

News
Jamaica
Reduction in Remittances
Traditionally, foreign workers boost both the economies
of the countrie they work in as well as teir home
countries. But studies say that the current global
economic crisis had sapped much of such cross-border
monetary exchange.
In 2008, workers abroad collectively sent $328 billion
in earnings back to their country compared with
$285 billion in 2007, a 15.1% increase. Of worldwide
remittances, India was top with receipts of $52 billion.
“As the US job market weakness continues, officially
recorded remittance flows to Latin America and the
Caribbean region have dropped significantly in the first
hald of 2009” (World Bank). Workers from Jamaica
remitted 17% less to their home country than during
the same period one year ago, resulting in the largest
loss amongst all countries in the area.
Epoch Times - August 12-18, 2009
Red Gold n Green Day Pre
School - Global Appeal
We are a group of 15 Rasta women based in 2 communities
namely: Philippi Marcus Garvey and in Khaylitsha. We as
the women of our community have come to realize that we need
our own crèche run by Rasta. The reason for this is we are realizing
a great change in our children’s behavior and these changes
do not favor a Rasta life, and also in reflection on our own lives
we need to have our children educated by us at the same time
for them not to fall behind with the ever changing society, we
need them to embrace this life fully, well equipped and without
them losing their own identity in the ever changing world. To
make situations even more challenging the teachers are not well
informed about Rasta life. We need to keep our children safe and
balanced and we can’t blame them because there are many other
children in the crèche/school.
So we decided to get together as the women and work
towards our own day care centre and after school care centre, the
challenges we face here is that we have limited resources hence
we are experiencing discomfort working towards our vision and
not able to produce the desired effect of educating our children.
Having learnt of the learnership and the programs on offer we
have approached Grass Roots and ELRU to help us, empower us
with knowledge to run a proper well kept, well organized crèche
for the sake of the children of our community, other parents don’t
have patience and they remove their children from school not
realizing we are slowly creating another ignorant generation, and
we as Rasta women refuse to sit back and watch this happen. So
these two organizations have agreed to put together for a basic
child care program where we will be workshopped to write a test
and receive certificates to show that we are qualified teachers. We
want to do this as professionally as possible so as to avoid unnecessary
conflicts with the law.
This crèche is not only to benefit our Rasta community
it is for the whole community because Rasta has a message of
unity for everyone and we can influence our bigger community
for a positive change, of self love, self respect and self sufficiency,
with young children equipped with skills at a young age to help
older children with their homework and create for them an after
school program so they don’t idol with this we are hoping to
decrease the amount of teenage pregnancy and boys to stay away
from drugs and unhealthy friendships created out of boredom
and lack of activities within our communities.
Currently we are registered as a non profit organization
with Department of Social Development but it takes three
months to receive your registration number, we have found
temporal grounds within Philippi that we can use till we get
permanent land and we are trying to find means to get building
materials, we are in communication with the council of Philippi
concerning funds to or ways to do this course via Government
through our meetings we are aware that what we are asking from
them can only materialize in 2010 July because we missed their
financial year 2009.
The sisters have been volunteering in 3 crèches 1 in
Cape Town, the other in Observatory and the other one in Khaylitsha
just so to get a feel of a crèche environment. We also do
our own fund raiser events and craft markets. We are fundraising
for the First Aid course which is not as expensive as the Child
Care course. We are currently working towards an event for the
10th October as our fundraiser for October and we have a raffle
sheet which that day will be a lucky draw tickets are between R20
and R1000 winner wins dinner for 2 at the Ethiopian Restaurant
in Long street. In honesty we can’t do it alone.
Thobekile Mbanda
chairperson of RGG
RGG Pre School
Tel: 071 0460499/ 0784381116 /0796617598
Address: 9004 Crescent 26
Marcus Garvey
Phillipi
7750
Fax: 086 6082868
E-mail: redgoldngreedccentre@gmail.com
Should you be able to contribute or know of any people who
are willing to help in anyway be it books clothes etc please find
below our adress and bank details:
RGG PRE SCHOOL
Bank acc:11998000285
Bank:CAPITECH
Branch:khayelitsha
Code: 470010
Swift Code:NEDZAJJ(if you are over sees)
This is not an Ethiopian World Federation Inc Project
- The Organisation is providing free publicity to Red
Gold n Green Pre School and all enquiries are to be
made direct to Red Gold n Green.