What We Do

We recognize the importance of the early years in the process of child development. Therefore, our goal is to be responsive, mobilizing and supporting community efforts to provide a positive learning environment for young children by facilitating parent and teacher education and providing practical forms of assistance for the learning context.

We help to ensure that the children get the best possible nutrition, educational and developmental programs. We feel this will reduce social and economic disparities, as well as provide the best opportunity for the children to compete in the global economy.

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Our Mission

On January 14, 2003 the Minister of Industry granted P.A.C.E. (Canada) a Letters Patent which states that the Objectives of the Organization are:

1. To provide building materials, school equipment, supplies and other similar items for the construction, equipping and maintaining of community based pre-schools.

2. To inform Jamaican-Canadian community groups in Canada of the needs of the above pre-school programs.

3. To assist Jamaican-Canadian community groups to meet the needs of the said pre-school programs.

4. To encourage community participation in providing practical forms of assistance to pre-school programs.

5. To encourage students to enter pre-school teacher training by providing scholarships and bursaries, and through networking and research.

6. To develop educational programs to upgrade the skills of pre-school teachers and related professionals.

7. To provide teacher exchange programs aimed at upgrading the skills of pre-school teachers.

8. To provide young children with positive early learning experiences such as reading activities and supervised play activities which are lacking in their home environment.

9. To encourage parents of pre-school children to improve the learning experiences available to the children in the home, by educating the parents through training workshops and through the use of the model provided by the pre-school program.