{"id":3422,"date":"2020-12-09T16:09:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.odpem.org.jm\/?post_type=odpem_in_the_media&#038;p=3422"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:09:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:09:38","slug":"kyla-gaynor-is-odpems-2021-youth-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"odpem_in_the_media","link":"https:\/\/www.odpem.gov.jm\/?odpem_in_the_media=kyla-gaynor-is-odpems-2021-youth-ambassador","title":{"rendered":"Kyla Gaynor Is ODPEM&#8217;s 2021 Youth Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has named Kyla Gaynor as its 2021 youth ambassador.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her tenure will begin in January and last for one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gaynor, a student of The Queen\u2019s&nbsp;School, was named as the ambassador after winning the agency\u2019s Hurricane Preparedness Digital Poster Competition, which was launched as part of efforts to engage young people in a new way, due to the changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director General at <span style=\"background:yellow\">ODPEM<\/span>, Leslie Harrow, stated&nbsp;that naming a youth ambassador is part of efforts to continue the agency\u2019s engagement with the winner of the poster competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe believe that the youth are the ones to lead us as a nation and the fact that she came forward to enter a competition, we believe that we are not only to just engage youth for the competition, but that they can be better utilised in other areas. And, so for a young person her age, I am fully aware that she has a platform out there and we can use her to educate that cadre of persons and bring some amount of visibility on the social media platforms that are available to her.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGoing forward, we will look at our other competition winners and engage them in a similar light,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <span style=\"background:yellow\">ODPEM<\/span> Youth Ambassador is expected to share information relating to preparedness for natural disasters, such as hurricanes and earthquakes, with her schoolmates and other young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI feel honoured to be chosen to represent <span style=\"background:yellow\">ODPEM<\/span> as an ambassador. I feel like I can represent them well. I will use my social media platforms to inform others in my age group about the importance of preparing for natural disasters in order to stay safe,\u201d said Gaynor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, director of Information and Training at <span style=\"background:yellow\">ODPEM<\/span>, Delmares White, said that the ambassador will receive training similar to what is offered to volunteers in the Disaster Risk Management Volunteer Programme, \u201cso that she will be more knowledgeable in some of the areas\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She further indicated that the ambassador will also be exposed to All Hazards Training, which will enable her to \u201coffer insights in terms of safety tips, preparedness information and just general information in terms of how to be aware of some of the hazards in your area at that age\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"background:yellow\">The ODPEM<\/span> digital poster competition was open to secondary students from 12 to 18 years of age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3423,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_angie_page":false},"odpem_news":[],"class_list":["post-3422","odpem_in_the_media","type-odpem_in_the_media","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odpem.gov.jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/odpem_in_the_media\/3422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odpem.gov.jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/odpem_in_the_media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odpem.gov.jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/odpem_in_the_media"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odpem.gov.jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odpem.gov.jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"odpem_news","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odpem.gov.jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fodpem_news&post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}