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Jamaica Partners With Children Of Jamaica Outreach (COJO) To Bring
Smiles To Children This Holiday New York Based Jamaican Charity Visits
Jamaica December 9-12
NEW YORK - December
2, 2008 - A three-member delegation from the New York based Jamaican
charity, Children of Jamaica Outreach (COJO) inc. will visit Jamaica
from December 9-12 as part of its activities to bring cheer to less
fortunate children this holiday season. The delegation, which is led
by COJO Founder and Chairman Gary M. Williams, will arrive in Kingston
on Tuesday, December 9, 2008.
Air Jamaica, the
World’s Favourite Airline to the Caribbean has again come on
board to support COJO and will transport the items, including computers
to be presented and assist in flying members of the delegation to
Jamaica. COJO Executive Member Robert DeSouza Sr., Managing Director
of Transcontinental Express Shippers has also lent the services of
his company to assist in transporting the items.
On Wednesday,
December 10 at 9:00 am, COJO will make a presentation of computers
to the Windward Road Primary & Junior High for its computer lab
and later in the day host a treat for the children at Glenhope Place
of Safety. On Thursday, December 11, members of COJO will travel to
Clarendon, where they will host another treat, this time for the St.
Augustine Place of Safety for Boys.
COJO is a 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization in New York, whose mission is to help improve
the health, education and general well being of underprivileged children.
Over the past decade, the volunteer-driven organization has supported
a number of institutions in Jamaica as well as the United States.
Among them are the Alpha Boys’ Home; Glenhope Place of Safety;
Marigold Child Care Centre and the Musgrave Girls’ Home in Jamaica;
and in New York, the Jamaica, Queens YMCA and Leaf of Life.
Chairman of COJO
Gary Williams is pleased to return to Jamaica, noting that this is
his eighth visit to Jamaica, since the organization was formed in
1994. "Our children are the future and any opportunity to help
them is a worthwhile investment which has far reaching implications.
If we fail to take care of our children, there will be no future for
us," said Williams, Chairman of COJO. Williams’ stance is
supported by Attorney and Children’s Advocate Marian Edelman
Wright who once remarked “If we don’t stand up for children,
then we don’t stand for much.”
About Children
of Jamaica Outreach
Children of Jamaica
Outreach COJO Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in New York
and is registered with the New York City Bureau of Charities. The
brainchild of Jamaican-born American Gary Williams, COJO’s mission
is to help improve the health, education and general well being of
less fortunate children. Since inception in 1994, COJO has dedicated
its resources, human and financial, to help make a difference in the
lives of underserved children in Jamaica as well as the United States
of America.
