BY SHARLENE HENDRICKS Staff reporter hendrickss@jamaicaobserver.com Sunday, November 17, 2019
SINCE he first came into the spotlight in 2017 for having risked his own life to save a youngster from the raging flood waters in a gully, Tremayne Brown has been focused on making an even greater impact in his community and the wider Jamaica.
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| Tremayne Brown with Japhene Campbell, mother of seven-year-old Benjamin Bair. |
The 26-year-old resurfaced on the radar of heroic acts last Friday when he made the first donation from his newly established foundation to Japhene Campbell, the mother of sevenyear- old Benjamin Bair, who was killed by a garbage truck as he waited to be picked up from his school, Clan Carthy Primary in St Andrew. Brown told the Jamaica Observer that the news of Benjamin's death broke his heart.
This, he said prompted him to start the paperwork to register the Tremayne Brown Youth Foundation, something he had been envisioning since his first act of gallantry.
“I believe little things can make a difference, so I wanted to start a foundation where I can help people who need the assistance. Mi nuh have a lot of money and the foundation just start, and if I can raise some funds for her, then I know that other people out there can do the same,” Brown told the Sunday Observer.
“I actually believe now that I am here to make a difference. In my community, I want to uplift the people. I want to do programmes for the youth them, take them out of the community and show them another side of life because Jamaica is beautiful. We have a lot of history and a lot of thing here, and a lot of the youth don't even come outside of the community,” said Brown.
He explained that the foundation will target youth in his community and several others across Jamaica where there is a lack of social infrastructure to support their growth and development.
“This is what I am passionate about because I believe the children are our future,” Brown said.
“Right now I am looking about raising some money to build a little community centre in the community, where we can do things like after-school programmes.
“Some of the children in my community, them nuh have nuh help, and we have a lot of children who are very bright as well and them don't have nuh strength behind them to push them. As children they need that push to go in the right direction. Sometimes when mi look and mi see the youth them I think they can get so much more out of life. So that is the reason why I start the foundation.
“We want to make a change in 2020. If is even to reach 10 or 20 people and make a change in them life, that is what we are going to do,” he added.
Also, the father of a soon-to-be seven-year-old son, Brown spoke movingly to Campbell on Thursday when he visited with the grieving mother at her home in Kingston.
“I have a son myself and although as a father I can only imagine what Japhene as a mother is feeling, I can relate to her as a parent. For me, when I heard the news, it broke my heart and k
SINCE he first came into the spotlight in 2017 for having risked his own life to save a youngster from the raging flood waters in a gully, Tremayne Brown has been focused on making an even greater impact in his community and the wider Jamaica.
The 26-year-old resurfaced on the radar of heroic acts last Friday when he made the first donation from his newly established foundation to Japhene Campbell, the mother of sevenyear- old Benjamin Bair, who was killed by a garbage truck as he waited to be picked up from his school, Clan Carthy Primary in St Andrew. Brown told the Jamaica Observer that the news of Benjamin's death broke his heart.
This, he said prompted him to start the paperwork to register the Tremayne Brown Youth Foundation, something he had been envisioning since his first act of gallantry.
“I believe little things can make a difference, so I wanted to start a foundation where I can help people who need the assistance. to. I am hearing from the school, but I haven't heard from the Ministry of Education as yet. They need to reach out to me because I am not getting any positive feedback as to what is happening,” said Campbell.
“On the morning of October 28, I took Benjamin to school and he never came back home. I am in pain. That much I can say. I can't sleep and I can't eat. When I normally take them to school, his sister would say 'bye-bye mommy'. But Benjamin was never fund of saying goodbye. He just waved at me."
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