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Noel Thompson, <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Freelance </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Writer</SPAN>
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<SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Human </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">rights</SPAN> advocacy group, Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ), is on an islandwide drive to recruit young people into the organisation to <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">build</SPAN> a stronger youth base.
JFJ executive director, Dr. Carolyn Gomes, told The Gleaner that, with the recent appointment of a community educator, the drive had been seeing success so far.
"Part of that mandate is to help us to reach out to communities. The young people's communities are what we have already been reaching out to. Last year, we had a successful project where we discussed human rights issues to every first form student at Wolmer's <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">High </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">School</SPAN>," Dr. Gomes said.
She was among several JFJ members who were attending an evening of discussion on 'Balancin
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