Development Implications

Site and Employment

In addition to employing and training some of the more able-bodied young persons from the home itself, an important component of the project involves the participation of residents of the surrounding communities in productive activities on the compound.

The training and employment of these residents, especially the young of working age, in the planned economic ventures will impart skills which they can use to generate economic activity in the surrounding areas.

At present, many of these unemployed young people migrate to the major urban areas of Jamaica seeking economic oppurtunities, a move which only further strains the services of these centres and exacerbates the problem of overcrowding, crime, violence, prostitution and other social issues.