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 BACKGROUND 

Evelyn. M. Powell (E.M.P.), otherwise known to her colleagues as Pow-Pow), was a lifelong teacher from Port Maria Primary School in Jamaica, who dedicated her life to helping others, whether it was through having that home in the community where a passing homeless person knew he could always stop and get a cooked meal with a tall glass of homemade lemonade – not to mention cake at Christmas time, or empowering an illiterate adult by teaching him how to read and write, or showing such love to her students that many of them called her ‘Mama’ . 

Even when her kindness was rewarded with ingratitude, she never wavered in her commitment to serving the community with kindness.  Even though providing this kindness came at the cost of her very life (offering kindness to someone who would be so ungrateful as to then turn around and extinguish that loving light), I know that it was a cost that would still never deter her from offering help to those who needed it.  If she had her life to live over again, I have no doubt that she would still show love and kindness.  That was just who she was. 

 

MISSION 

It is therefore in memory of my mother that I have created EMPower Projects, an organization for which the mission is to empower others through employment and/ or education.  

Employing the unemployed (from disadvantaged communities) and the unemployable (the disabled, seniors, the poorly educated,  etc.).

SISTER SERVICE:  EMPower Penpals

- forming friendships, fighting loneliness 

  (e-mail correspondence and reading materials to the lonely).

EMPOWER PROJECTS OBJECTIVES 

• To enhance self esteem through the assignment of meaningful projects, which would enable participants to utilize their skills to earn. 
• To provide online skills training to allow participants greater access to job opportunities. 
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AIM 

The aim of EMPower Projects is to provide opportunities to earn through the assignment of projects relevant to each person's capability, interest and/or strength. 

 

PHASE ONE TARGET COMMUNITIES 

Jamaica          – Projects 

Haiti                – Projects and English Education 

South Sudan   - Projects 

TARGET FUNDING 

• Corporate sponsors 
• GoFundMe sponsors 
• Government Grants (international) 

 

TARGET PARTICIPANTS BY YEAR/ COUNTRY 

JAMAICA 

2022 – 10 

2023 - 100 

2024 - 1000

 

HAITI 

2023 – 10 

2024 - 100 

2025 - 1000

 

SOUTH SUDAN 

2024 – 10 

2025 - 100 

2026 - 1000

 

SAMPLE PROJECTS  

• Design (book covers, flyers, business cards, etc.). 
• Administration (research, preparation of documents and presentations, etc.) 
• Education (tutoring – English Math, Foreign Languages, etc.) 
• Online tasks (web design, blog posts, newsletter dissemination, etc. 
• Creativity (drawing, painting, writing, etc. – including contests) 
• Community service (assist the elderly, assist children, assist the sick and/or needy, cleaning and caring projects, etc.). 
• Physical projects (farming, cleaning, construction, repairing, painting, cooking, etc.).
• School projects (completion of assignments on a timely basis)
• Other projects as needed. 

 

BENEFITS TO SPONSORS 

• Powerful word-of-mouth endorsement through the 10 x 10 x 17 Program (details below,  in the individual contribution section).
• Prominent feature in all advertising material (website, blog page, posters, flyers, T-shirts, etc.). 
• Central feature in all PR activities (TV and Radio interviews, podcasts, etc.). 
• Central feature in all online activities (Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, etc.) 
• Central feature in book to be distributed to government agencies, members of parliament, libraries, schools, etc. across each of the nations. 
• Product displays and demos at consumer events. 
• Access to new users 
• In all publicity, recognition of the company’s generosity, resulting in subsequent enhancement of positive image of the company. 
• Acknowledgement in all interviews with the press, public speeches, etc. 
• Invitation to EMPowerful Projects events. 
• Maximum brand visibility at all events (banners, displays, signage, T-shirts, flyers, etc.). 
• Official ‘Thank You’. messages in company’s publications and communications. 
• Submission to request approval prior to use of company logo. 
• Detailed information of impact of sponsorship activities on company’s brand and/or products (ROI) 

 

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTION OF PARTICIPANTS 

• Each participant receiving corporate sponsorship will be asked to reward the sponsor through the 10 x 10 x 17 promotion program:  the team member identifies one of the sponsor's products that he/she loves, provides word-of-mouth endorsement to 10 people, and asks each of those 10 persons to accept product samples and then endorse the product to 10 other people.  It is said that word-of mouth endorsement is 17 times more effective than regular advertising, hence the term 10 x 10 x 17.

Helping companies, helping communities, helping colleagues, helping the common man. 

 Contact:  judypowellcbs@gmail.com