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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. |
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WELCOME visitorS! The Rochester Jamaican Organization, Inc s a non-profit organization incorporated in October 2006.
The Rochester Jamaican Organization was established exclusively for charitable purposes, including:
· providing programs for the general education and enlightenment to the Jamaican Community at large · providing a platform for the dissemination of information on available resources to address the social and economic needs of Jamaicans living in the community, and · perpetuating the virtues of the Jamaican heritage throughout the community. |
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Officers
President– Joel Frater Vice President– Deloris Lewis Treasurer-Yvonne Lewis-McDonald Secretary– Michelle Thompson-Taylor |
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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. |
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 |
