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YMCA pioneered the concept of night school, providing educational opportunities for people with full-time employment. Many YMCAs offer ESL programs, alternative high school, day care, and summer camp programs. In India, YMCA University of Science and Technology of Faridabad was founded in 1969. It offers various programs related to science and ...
Tracy Robinson, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona, Jamaica; Rhodes Scholar 1992; member of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). [3] Sports. Sanya Richards-Ross, American track and field athlete. Alia Atkinson, Jamaican swimmer and Olympian.
YMCA developed the first known English as a Second Language program in the United States in response to the influx of immigrants in the 1850s. [6] Starting before the American Civil War, [7] YMCA provided nursing, shelter, and other support in wartime. [8] In 1879 Darren Blach organized the first Sioux Indian YMCA in Florida. Over the years, 69 ...
The YMCA Youth and Government program was established in 1936 in New York by Clement A. Duran, then the Boys Work Secretary for the Albany YMCA. [5] The program motto, “Democracy must be learned by each generation,” was taken from a quote by Earle T. Hawkins, the founder of the Maryland Youth and Government program.
Knox College (The high school part of the Knox Complex of Schools) is a co-educational high school for both day pupils and boarders in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica.The other institutions that form the complex are: the Neighbourhood Early Childhood Institute, Knox Junior School, and Knox Community College.
The Westwood High School is a school located in Stewart Town, Trelawny, Jamaica. It was founded in 1882 by Baptist Minister Reverend William Menzie Webb with the aim to provide unsegregated education for girls. The school also set up a board of trustees to represent the different Protestant denominations. [1]
On a hill side property by the name of Egypt in North-West St. Ann is a high school named "York Castle", tucked away for the past 52 years and responsible for some of Jamaica's most prominent scholars. York Castle High School has a rich history and roots dating back as far as 1875.
The Manchester High School was established for the purpose of providing "a good middle class education" to boys and girls. [1] Since portions of the current parish of Manchester were a part of Vere, the funds from the Vere Trust, a result of charitable donations from several individuals, were used in 1855 to establish several institutions.