Project Nine Mile Revisited

There has been a bit of discussion recently about the continuation of Project Nine Mile sometime early next year. The tentative idea is to revisit Stepney and do a short photo/video workshop with interested students with a focus on literacy and numeracy, two big problems with youth at Stepney and across Jamaica. There are still a lot of logistics to be worked out before anything becomes concrete but there are a lot of good people with great intentions working on it, so we’ll see how things progress.

For the uninitiated, the initial phase of Project Nine Mile involved me going to Jamaica for six weeks this past summer to start a computer education program at Stepney Primary and Junior High School, near Nine Mile, Jamaica, the boyhood home of reggae legend Bob Marley. The experience was incredible and was documented as Internet became available over at the official Project Nine Mile website.