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Ivan Nettleford, pictured here with his sister Siselyn Graham, was imprisoned for decades because of a mental illness. MCC supports organizations that are advocating for the human rights of mentally ill people. View MapMCC in JamaicaLatin America & Caribbean MCC supports counseling and advocacy for people with mental illnesses in Jamaica, education and mentoring for children and teenagers and organizations that work for human rights. With Global Family sponsorships, MCC supports Committee for the Upliftment of the Mentally Ill, an organization that gives tutoring and counseling to children with mental illnesses. MCC also uses Global Family sponsorships to support Maranatha School for the Deaf, which is operated by the Jamaican Mennonite Church. Other partners that work with youth include Family Counseling Centre of Jamaica, which gives mentoring to adolescent boys at risk of delinquency in St. Ann's Bay, and Women's Centre Foundation of Jamaica, Kingston and Mandeville, which provides counseling to teenage mothers. MCC also supports Jamaica Council for Human Rights in its advocacy for men and women on death row and mentally ill people in prison, and supports Jamaicans For Justice, which does public education on human rights and advises victims of police brutality and other abuse. Participants in MCC's one-year Serving and Learning Together program (SALT) regularly serve with MCC's Jamaican partner organizations. |
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