Girls Becoming - Kingston, Jamaica

The mission of Beloved Youth Moving Forward is to seek sponsorships with foundations such as Girls Becoming in Jamaica. The founder Ingrid Stewart Boivin has designed an amazing 2-year graduate program with her class of 12 girls. Partnering with her was an easy match as we paralleled in theory as she had several programs already set in place. It was a matter of maximizing resources to move her organization to the next level. 

Through mentorship, she helps her girls with their current life situations and teaches core values for them to become the "best they can be". Ingrid provides life and real-world skills to her classes as they participate in monthly sessions, while providing professional and educational experts to teach courses and move the teens forward into adulthood.

Partnering with The Sesi is a part of our global mission.  Our vision is to provide a platform for girls to realize their full potential and seize opportunities, allowing them to become Sesi Lomkhulus (big sisters) in their community and our country.

What is it that we do to achieve our vision:

• Provide the girls with a sense of belonging
• Provide girls w/mentorship & guidance by assisting them with decision making skills
• Provide the girls w/tools required to navigate the challenges faced by teenagers
• Expose them to opportunities available outside of the immediate community
• Prevent dependency on older males who prey on vulnerable teenage girls in impoverished communities
• Intsil in our girls a sense of pride in their feminity 

In this search for equity in the world, there is a population that the world does not see, they are these young people who are deaf, or with cognitive disabilities, who have other wonderful talents such as their creativity, and tenacity to achieve independence, self worth and contribution to their community.  Our Director, in one of his immersion and research trips in Colombia, identified this youth group having little or no economic support. The youth have the entrepreneural spirit to provide hand made crafts using various materials including leather for purses, bracelets and other fashionable items.  These items are sold at various markets and abroad which provide economic support and self-sustaining activities=INDEPENDENCE. 

•  In our experience supporting foundations, we have identified young people who find it more difficult, due to their health condition, the most beautiful thing is that they have taught us that they go after their dreams, overcome their limitations, and meet their objectives, we We will be the air under its wings.  
• In this path of support that we decided to undertake, we have had great lessons, and we found a group of deaf young people advancing in Colombia, and one of them told us "Disability is our inability to see that we all have different abilities" a message full of of wisdom, which moved us, and motivates us to expand our coverage
• Supporting foundations that accompany young people has been wonderful, we discovered that there are many worlds, meeting young people with hearing disabilities, inspiring, enterprising, brave, making us more inclusive, motivating us to see other needs in our world, which is why BYMF will support these young people, in their dreams and ambition!!