Life Changing Stories
Dillon Dawes: Champion for a Cause
If the truth be told one never stops learning as learning is a continued process. Every day we learn something new. What do we do with this new knowledge however? Often times this knowledge has the power to change lives forever. Dillon Dawes is one such person who can give testimony to the power of knowledge to transform and change lives.
Dillon Dawes is a learner with the Jamaican Foundation for Lifelong Learning’s High School Equivalency Programme, HISEP. Dawes describes his life prior to his enrolment as just normal going through the everyday motions of working. He always had a passion to continue learning.
Dawes was introduced to the JFLL by a close friend of his who is a member of the Seventh day Adventist Church which he attends. “I always had a passion to continue learning regardless of the field so when I was introduced to the programme I saw it as an opportunity waiting for me.” Dawes said.
Dawes used to work as a skilled cold room foreman with Island Dairies Limited prior to enrolling. At present he is self-employed and pursuing a skill in plumbing. He has his eyes set on becoming a Guidance Counsellor or a social worker as working with children and people less fortunate has always been a passion of his. Dawes says that his involvement in the programme will help him in achieving this goal.
Dillon says having benefited from the JFLL’s HISEP programme is recommending it to others who might find themselves in a similar position like he was. “What’s their limit? The best way to achieve is to start a learning process over again or to continue learning,” Dawes advises.
Since his contact with the JFLL, Dawes has admitted to becoming hooked on reading. This he says opens up a new world of possibilities for him. “I am now hooked on reading and the world has opened to me.” Dawes having had his life changed forever through his contact with the JFLL is on a campaign to help others find what he describes as their ‘calling.’
Zurie Johnson [PR intern, 2008]
