The Rochester Jamaican Organization (Rocjam), Creating Networks to Enlighten, Educate and Empower the Rochester and Jamaican Community.

 

empowering the Rochester Jamaican community through educational, social, economic and cultural engagement.

 

working in solidarity to foster and develop partnership and goodwill with constituents that share our mission and value of progressive Jamaican communities based on mutual respect, understanding and a shared vision of self-determination and commitment to perpetuating the Jamaican heritage globally.

 

striving to uphold professional and ethical principles in providing service to its members and the community at large, and

 

communicating in a common voice and expose its membership to core values and leadership ideals that must be perpetuated through the organization.

Text Box: WELCOME visitorS! Incorporated in 2006, the Rochester Jamaican Organization, Inc., was formed: to provide resources to support immigrants of Jamaican or Caribbean heritage to assimilate into American society; and to support activities that work to improve the living and educational conditions of the under privileged in Jamaica. It is designed to help integrate Jamaicans and other African-Americans into US society as praiseworthy citizens. Among other things, this will lessen governmental burdens and neighborhood tensions, will reduce prejudice and discrimination, and combat community deterioration and juvenile delinquency.

Officers

 

President– Joel Frater

Vice President– Deloris Lewis

Treasurer-Yvonne Lewis-McDonald

Secretary– Michelle Thompson-Taylor

Rochester Jamaican Organization, Inc.

P.O. Box 24287

Rochester, NY 14624

 

Phone: 585-234-2119

 

Email: rochesterjamaicanorg@yahoo.com

 

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Jamaica has a rich and vibrant history, which inspires us to move forward as a nation. Our history speaks to experiences of hardships and prosperity; and the growth and determination of a people. Jamaica’s history has been poetically composed by Howard Pyle, who states:

 

Jamaica, like many another of the West Indian Islands, is like a woman with a history. She has had her experiences and has lived her life rapidly. She has enjoyed a fever of prosperity founded upon those incalculable treasures poured into her lap by the old time buccaneer pirates. She has suffered earthquake, famine, pestilence, fire and death: and she has been the home of cruel merciless slavery, hardly second to that practiced by the Spaniards themselves. Other countries have taken centuries to grow from their primitive life through the flower and fruit of prosperity into the seed time of picturesque decrepitude. Jamaica

has lived through it all in a few years.

- Howard Pyle, “Jamaica New and Old” in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, January 1890

 

Rochester Jamaican ORGANIZATION INC. ,  ADVISORY COUNCIL

 

GARTH FAGAN

Garth Fagan, Founder and Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed Garth Fagan Dance

 

WINSOME P. CARTER

Financial Advisor, Smith Barney, a division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

 

Orville A. Smith

Senior Vice President, Market & Segment Executive Upstate Retail Banking

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