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From Hampton students speaking on electricity theft to our Young Women Leaders being inspired to ‘lead with a vision of love’, our young women made their voices heard in June! Our team members also showed continued dedicated support for the Foundation’s causes with contributions of time and treasures. Learn more about all this and more in this issue of ‘Connection’. Read. Share. Enjoy.
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A PUBLICATION OF THE JPS FOUNDATION NO. 7 JULY 2014 WWW.MYJPSFOUNDATION.ORG
Contact us: 935-3514. [email protected]. facebook.com/jpsfoundationja. twitter.com/jpsfoundationja
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ENERGY RAP JPS Head, Projects Management and Engineering, David Cooke, raps with a student from the Charlie Smith High School during the school’s Environment Fair. See more on Page 5.
THE JPS FOUNDATION
2. YOUTH LEADERSHIP
LEADING WITH A
LOVE HAS no place in the board-room. At least, that’s what many business leaders believe if they are to successfully manage and make that ever more profitable bottom line. For more than 20 years, JMMB has proved this thinking wrong and on Friday June 27 the financial insti-tution’s Executive Director of Culture and Human Development, Mrs. Donna Duncan-Scott, showed the participants in our Young Women Leaders (YWL) programme that LOVE is an important part of leadership. The YWLs — who were joined by
two JPS Foundation/EWP Scholar-ship recipients Deborah Fletcher and Rocque Ferguson as well as JPS Foundation beneficiary Sherry Perri-er—experienced an uplifting session with Duncan-Scott whose calm and nurturing demeanour demonstrated that a kinder, more inclusive leader-ship format gets productive results. In addition to an almost two-hour long chat, the ladies each read a paragraph of JMMB’s Vision Of Love—the ethos by which each JMMB team member operates in relation to themselves, their colleagues and their customers.
Donna Duncan-Scott in discussion with the ladies, pictured in inset from top, Sherry Perrier, Shana-Kay Cunningham, Alshadane Wright, Rocque Ferguson, Deborah Fletcher and Kemesha Vassell.
3. EDUCATION
REGION WEST proudly handed over a cheque for J$250,000 to the Falmouth Gardens Basic School, the Trelawny-based JPS Foundation Model School project. In January 2014, Region West Community Relations Officer, Allaine Harvey, challenged his team to raise J$150,000 towards Phase 2 renovations at the school. The region enthusiastically answered and through Creativity and team work, surpassed the target by 60%! Phase 2 will see the rewiring of the school, retrofitting with energy efficient fixtures and the introduction of an energy con-servation programme for the teachers and children (and by extension, the parents and wider community). The labour will be provided by the Region West RPD group free of cost.
ST. ANN FUNDRAISER: On March 3, the St. Ann team held a Fish Fry, topped off with a soup and pastry sale.
WESTMORELAND FUNDRAISER: A Luncheon on February 27 and a Fish Fry the following day was Westmoreland’s first effort. The team then flipped that profit to host another Fish Fry on April 17.
ST. JAMES FUNDRAISER: St. James engaged its team members with a showing of the action adventure flick, ‘47 Ronin’ at a Movie Night on April 3.
HANOVER FUNDRAISER: A Cake sale in early April was Hanover’s first fund-raiser. Also, a raffle was conducted on April 11 at the parish office. Up for grabs were a 32 inch TV, a BB Z10 phone and a Microwave.
TRELAWNY FUNDRAISER: Trelawny team members delighted in a one–month Pastry sale during March 2014.
The school also received two fire extinguishers as part of the Foundation’s commitment to safety at the institution.
Principal of the Falmouth Gardens Basic School, Mrs. Margaret Gordon-Bennett (left), accepts the symbolic cheque from the JPS Team — St. Ann Parish Manager, Marvin Campbell; Snr. VP - Energy Delivery, Gary Barrow and Snr. VP, Customer and Corporate Services, Mrs. Sheree Martin.
4. ENERGY EDUCATION
THIRD FORM students at the Hampton School are lending their thoughts to the national electricity theft debate through the JPS Foundation Energy Angel Challenge presently in activation at the St. Elizabeth-based institution. The students delivered thought provok-ing essays speaking to the impact of elec-tricity theft on Jamaica’s energy security as part of the Challenge’s elimination round which saw 10 students moving forward to
compete in the final ‘bills reduction’ seg-ment, that will lead to one student being crowned an ‘Energy Angel’. Of those 10 winning essays, Head of the school’s Science Department Mrs. Sandra Lord selected the top three, highlights of which we are pleased to share. In May, the JPS Foundation launched the challenge to help the students better un-derstand issues within the energy sector, including electricity theft, safety, efficiency
and conservation, in its continued support of the school’s bold renewable energy project. The selected Energy Angel will be the stu-dent whose electricity bill reflects the most savings in usage and money through ener-gy efficient methods for the three month period of June, July and August 2014. JPS Foundation Energy Mentors are guiding these students in practising safe energy efficiency techniques during the period.
Electricity theft is a prevalent issue in Jamaica. It has a humongous impact on Jamaica’s energy security. If every-one steals and is not willing to pay for the extraordinary service received from Jamaica’s huge source of electri-cal energy, the whole country will surrender. It is highly possible that Jamaica will return to the days of Tilly lamps and lanterns… Everyone needs to lessen this impact, as in the end it affects the country as a whole. Every-one has to cooperate to have a secure energy panel.
Since the introduction of electricity to Jamaica, life has been much easier … Let’s face it, electricity is needed in everyday life, so what happens when we steal it? Every year billions of dollars of electricity is stolen. Stealing electricity is not only a crime, but has many other effects. In addition to the breaches of the law, customers lose money due to electricity theft and our energy sources are often overused. these billions of dollars that JPS loses each year could have been used to en-hance the country’s energy saving methods, for exam-ple, the use of wind and solar energy to provide elec-tricity.
ALICIA FERGUSON
I personally need the energy provided by JPS to help me with my assign-ments. However, if JPS continues to lose that much money, I will be se-verely affected…. If everyone uses energy wisely, we will all benefit by reduced debt and wastage of electrici-ty. I remember a great hero’s motto “One God, One Aim, One Destiny” – if we won’t cooperate, we will be the losers when the JPS can no longer be a public service company for Jamaica. That will simply be another tale to tell the next generations to come.”
KWESIANN REGENT LETICA HALL
5. ENERGY EDUCATION
A TEAM of JPS experts helped to educate
Charlie Smith High School students on
sustainable energy practices during the
school’s annual Environment Fair on June
11. Talks by Environment, Health and Safe-
ty Officer, Al Pilliner, and Head of Genera-
tion, John Kistle, as well as one-on-one
interactions by other members of the team
helped the students to better understand
JPS’ sustainable energy policies as well as
introduced them to issues in renewable
energy. Here are the pictorial highlights!
6. STAFF RECOGNITION
HIGH VOLTage: Kevin Smith
JPS CUSTOMER Care Manager for St. Elizabeth, Kevin Smith, is one of four JPS Energy Mentors presently assisting Hampton students who are finalists in the JPS Foundation Energy Angels Challenge. Learn more about this giving leader Why have you volunteered to be an Energy Mentor? I am volunteering because I know that, as a nation, we have to start doing some-thing about our propensity to con-sume. What better place to start than with the future leaders and with energy, the most impactful cost driver in our economy? What do you hope to impart to the students? I hope to impart lifelong conservation tips
that will enable these students to apply the principles and also to pass it on to their parents and neighbours. What do you hope to gain from this experience? I hope that I will be better able to under-
stand what drives the consumption of energy at that demographic level. In do-ing so I will be in a better position to help our customers use energy wisely. How has volunteering impacted your life? Volunteering has broadened my horizon and has also helped to sharpen my leader-ship skills. To galvanise volunteer support around a process takes great leadership skills. What do you think is the impact of the JPS Foundation? I think that given the age of the JPS Foundation, it has made great strides so far. Given a few more years, it will be a force to be reckoned with.
“Volunteering has
broadened my horizon
and has also helped to
sharpen my leadership
skills. To galvanise
volunteer support around
a process takes great
leadership”
7. COMMUNITY
On Sunday June 22, a touching graduation
ceremony was held for the Rebirth Project, a nine-
week programme that reached out to and changed
the lives of ‘at risk’ girls and boys between the
ages of 13 and 14 attending the Tivoli and Norman
Manley High Schools. JPS volunteers closely as-
sisted workshop presenters and organising team,
monitored students and encouraged participation.
On graduation day, JPS Foundation Manager,
Nathelie Taylor, presented an award and a book
grant valued at J$30,000 to Alafia Adams, seen
above, who was deemed the Most Improved Child
for the programme.
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