In the wake of Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa’s dev­as­ta­tion across Ja­maica, Wiz­dom­CRM Caribbean Ltd has un­veiled a US$3.85 mil­lion hu­man cap­i­tal and ed­u­ca­tion re­lief ini­tia­tive to sup­port re­cov­ery and strength­en the na­tion’s ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem.

The pro­gramme, de­vel­oped in part­ner­ship with the Ja­maica So­cial Stock Ex­change (JSSE), aims to em­pow­er 20,000 stu­dents with AI-dri­ven learn­ing and fi­nan­cial lit­er­a­cy tools.

Di­as­po­ra mem­bers can con­tribute do­na­tions through the JSSE plat­form to sus­tain both im­me­di­ate re­lief and long-term ed­u­ca­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.

A state­ment from Wiz­dom­CRM said the ini­tia­tive fea­tures two key pro­grammes: the Sus­tain­able Stock Mar­ket Game AI Plat­form, tar­get­ing 10,000 pri­ma­ry school stu­dents, and the Ea­gle Eye AI Tu­tor Plat­form, which will reach an ad­di­tion­al 10,000 pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary stu­dents. Be­yond dig­i­tal learn­ing, the ef­fort al­so pro­vides cash and in-kind sup­port to help schools and stu­dents re­cov­er from the hur­ri­cane’s im­pact.

Wiz­dom­CRM said the ini­tia­tive merges short-term re­lief with long-term ca­pac­i­ty build­ing, en­sur­ing con­ti­nu­ity of learn­ing for stu­dents and teach­ers af­fect­ed by the storm.

The com­pa­ny stressed that the hur­ri­cane high­light­ed the ur­gent need for re­silient ed­u­ca­tion sys­tems ca­pa­ble of with­stand­ing cli­mate-re­lat­ed dis­as­ters.

It said by in­te­grat­ing AI tools, the pro­gramme equips stu­dents and teach­ers with skills and dig­i­tal re­sources to adapt to fu­ture dis­rup­tions, pro­mot­ing dig­i­tal in­clu­sion and fu­ture-proof­ing Ja­maica’s youth.

The ini­tia­tive aligns with Unit­ed Na­tions Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goals 4, 8, 9, and 10, fo­cus­ing on qual­i­ty ed­u­ca­tion, eco­nom­ic growth, in­no­va­tion, and re­duc­ing in­equal­i­ties.

“Through pub­lic-pri­vate col­lab­o­ra­tion and in­no­v­a­tive ed­u­ca­tion­al tech­nol­o­gy, we aim to de­vel­op a gen­er­a­tion of re­silient, fu­ture-ready stu­dents who can con­tribute mean­ing­ful­ly to na­tion­al and re­gion­al growth,” Wiz­dom­CRM said.