WE Talk for the Reduction of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Jamaica, our community education project, had an action-packed 2025.

This video tells the photographic story of our time on the road; WE Talk filled church sanctuaries, school assembly halls, classrooms, libraries and non-profit meeting spaces with Jamaicans eager to learn and join the movement against gender-based violence.

We delivered 60 anti-GBV training workshops to hundreds of women and men, from youth to seniors, in 11 of our 14 parishes. Jamaicans gathered in-person for vital conversations about gender, social expectations, power and how to prevent gender-based violence in all aspects of life.

Through engagement over a series of sessions, hundreds of graduates have now joined our FACTSS campaign: to Foster a Culture Toward Safety and Support in Jamaica.

We helped deepen participants skills and capacity to care for GBV survivors. WE Talk partnered with the Jamaica Red Cross to offer Psychological First Aid Training to duty bearers and laypersons seeking to become better-informed, and more effective leaders ready to prevent and respond to GBV.

WE Talk joined THURSDAYS IN BLACK (TIB), uniting in solidarity with groups all over the world taking action against GBV, every Thursday of every week.

On Thursday, May 22, 2025 we mobilized on the streets of Kingston, joined by workshop graduates, partners and allies to protest a spate of public acts of violence against women on the road, on campuses and in communities.

On Thursday, December 4, 2025, invited by the Mother's Union at St. Matthew's Anglican Church, we marched in downtown Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth. Our groups walked together along with 2 officers from the JCF Domestic Violence Unit, holding conversations with passersby and local vendors about GBV and extra risks in the disaster areas most affected by Hurricane Melissa.

Before Christmas, we organized a delivery of 100 care packages, water and hot meals to our partners in George's Plain, Westmoreland. Our gathering was a chance for local hurricane survivors to talk about what they'd been through, how it affected them, and the ways they were giving thanks. Our team offered psycho-social support and solidarity, but returned to Kingston strengthened and encouraged by the resilience, dignity and powerful spirits of the people we spoke with.

Despite a very tough year for Jamaicans, and for our ongoing struggle to eliminate gender-based violence, we are deeply encouraged that the tide is shifting in meaningful ways, and that WE Talk has played a vital role in this change.

Thanks to all the WE Talk participants, partners, administrators, researchers, facilitators, rapporteurs, managers, interns, volunteers, media crews, partners, funders and our WMW Jamaica membership, for this powerful year!