Former PATH beneficiary pursuing PhD

• Published date: 22 April 2024
• Publication title: Jamaica Star, The (Kingston, Jamaica)

PhD candidate Jordon Freeman was presented with the PATH Trailblazer Award by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security during the 2024 PATH Top Achiever's Awards Ceremony recently. The event was held at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston under the theme 'Celebrating Empowerment through Education'

Citing author Debby Irving, Freeman said: "Sharing the burden of social discomfort is not simply a matter of helping someone else feel good. It's about levelling the playing field in pursuit of nurturing individual and collective potential."

Freeman shared that since 2002, PATH has given its beneficiaries purpose, access, time and honour.

"You have enabled us to look beyond our difficult circumstances and strive for a better future. You have provided us with the resources and support we need to pursue and achieve our dreams. You have helped us to understand and appreciate that it's not where or when we started in this race of life, we can achieve greatness in life," Freeman said. He also lauded PATH for affording students the opportunity to demonstrate that they can be great, upstanding and accomplished in their own right.

The former PATH beneficiary attended Excelsior High School and went...