SANCTUARY
& FARM
located in Spring Garden, St. Ann Parish, Jamaica
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SOLIDARITY YAAD JAMAICA
As an intentional learning community our mission is to cultivate regenerative technologies for BIPOC women, girls, and LGBTQI+ gender expansive people towards:
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Climate Resilience
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Food Security
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Economic Advancement
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Healing Justice
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We create safe and brave spaces centering trauma-informed care.
There is limited funding and programming to eradicate gender-based violence (GBV) against Black Indigenous women, girls, and LBTQ communities in Jamaica. Complicit rape and violence touches 62% of women and girls in Jamaica, which is 12% higher than the global average.
The Caribbean region is increasingly susceptible to environmental emergencies that are ignored. Black Indigenous women and gender expansive people are the most vulnerable and own less than 10% of land in Jamaica. Government bodies are not yet instituting necessary policies for effecting changes.
OFFERINGS
ENVIRONEMENTAL BIODIVERSITY
We are sharing tools to mitigate hazardous environmental events, and find adaptive solutions by providing trainings to the most susceptible; in order to combat the effects on their own terms in ways that work in collaboration with the land’s natural bioprocesses.
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REGENERATIVE FARMING
​We are rematriating 12.5 acres of diverse mature moist tropical forest, St. Ann parish (at the border of St. Mary) through organic soil regeneration, agroforestry, watershed management, natural and organic energy inputs, and food security distribution systems that can provide sustained social economic advantages.
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By keeping our farm organic, through restoring our soils, we deepen our connection the micro-organisms and mycelium networks to grow the best foods without toxic chemicals.
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See highlights from recent collaborations with Ministry of Agriculture and Jamaica Organic Agriculture Movement Soil Fertilization Program JENESYS.
HEALING JUSTICE
We are intervening on behalf of personal and collective revitalization and redemption, through on-call trauma informed emotional-somatic care. We center indigenous Taino, Maroon, Afrakan, and Rastafarian rootwork in our ceremonies, coaching, consultation, cultivation, and conferences.
Healing Justice is necessary to the circle of wellbeing that is cultivated by disrupting toxic patriarchal and colonial regimes with radical authenticity and transparency to the pain grief, and trauma our communities have been living through.
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Learn about our Emotional Sovereignty Well-being 6-week Program for Jamaican women and LBQT in 2024.
Vision Circle
As a network of BIPOC women, LBQT gender expansive peoples and accomplices, we envision opportunities for emotional safety, mutual support, solidarity economics, and inclusiveness for all aspects of life on planet earth.
Solidarity team L-R: Afe, Shawn, JaDiel, Tae; Front: Justice, Afia
L-R: Dean, Trinity, Pele, Ayofemi, Florie
Our
Story
"Every Mickle Mek a Muckle"
Jamaican proverb speaks to the impact
that small things, when combined, one by one, can have a significant effect on the whole.
COLLABORATORS & SUPPORTERS
Our movement is 100% community funded. Since 2015, we have been growing radical feminist solutions alongside women, queer, trans, lesbian, and gender expansive survivors of gender based violence (GBV) in Jamaica. Our first name Raise Yuh Voice Jamaica, provided embodied somatic, healing soft spaces for survivors to tell their stories.
We knew that emotional and spiritual healing needed to be grounded and embodied in indigenous ancestral knowing and earth connections. Our visioning circle widened to embrace our larger vision and in October 2021, our community raised over $100,000 to embody this vision on our 12.5 acre farm. There we have been growing earth connections, food security, economic resources, and wellness. Our current farm has no built structures and with pandemic inflation and recent Hurricane Beryl, we are ready to embrace a built homebase of operations with infrastructure to support our growth.
​We are proud to partner with local and global collaborators and donors invested in rematriating and rewilding our lands and ourselves.
VDAY/One Billion Rising, Meadows Livingstone School, WeChange Jamaica; Transwave Jamaica, Seacole Hall @ University of the West Indies, I'm Glad I'm A Girl Foundation, Institute of Jamaica, Global Village Farms, Earth Activist Training, Earthlodge Center for Transformation, Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity & Equity, Caribbean Women & Sexual Diversity Conference, Caribbean Commslab, Wend Collective, Landing Justice, Allied Media Projects, Grounding Truths, Echo Valley Farm, African American Policy Forum, Comfrey Films, Astrea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, Equality Fund, Bioneers Every Woman's Leadership, African American Policy Forum, Comfrey Films, Soul Flower Farm, R.O.O.T.S. Permaculture, New Economy Coalition, MamaCash, Coleen Stevens, V Ensler, Penny Livingstone & Regenerative Design Institute, Judy Helfand & Pam Bates, Polly Howells, Diane Dodge, Carolyn Hunt, Cile Beatty, Laura Slatterly, and several anonymous donors, plus hundreds of friends who continue to support our mission to center care and communal learning that fosters long term protection of the underserved Jamaican communities and our land through various liberatory and regenerative practices.
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We are securing a permanent reliable move-in-ready house for our operations in St. Ann, Jamaica, next door to our current farm. With $200,000 remaining to move in by September 30, 2024, Your contribution—no matter how small—can make a real difference in empowering our community and creating safe spaces for those in need. If you could take a moment to donate or share this with your network, it would mean the world to us!​ Thank you!
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Inquiries
For any inquiries, questions or commendations, please call: 8765459900 or fill out the following form
Our Location
We are 40 minutes from Ocho Rios, St. Ann Parish, Jamaica
Tel: 876-545-9900
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Employment - Volunteer -Residency
To inquire about a position, to volunteer, or become a short-term resident with Solidarity Yaad Jamaica. Please send a cover letter together with your C.V. to: solidarityfarmsja@gmail.com.
No calls please.