Meet AJA!

• He is one of the Caribbean foremost performance poets.
• A humanitarian involved in many local, regional and international projects. He has founded an organization called the International Foundation for Peace & Poverty Eradication and is the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) Spokesperson on Poverty Eradication and Peace for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean .
• A photographer and video producer.
• Musician

AJA: Poet AJA is the foremost performance poet in Barbados and one of the leading exponents of the art form in the Caribbean. He is also an international humanitarian and was recently appointed a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Spokesperson on Poverty and Peace for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean.

AJA: International Charity The ifppe: In October 2003, AJA founded his own trust and international charity called the International Foundation for Peace and Poverty Eradication (ifppe). Through the ifppe, AJA has started an international campaign against war and poverty and to help in the fight against the HIV-AIDS pandemic. AJA is now working on projects with the UNDP and other UN agencies in the Caribbean, the Ministry of Social Transformation of Barbados and the HIV-AIDS Commission of Barbados. The ifppe has also started its own projects around the world.

AJA: Humanitarian From AJA’s emergence as a poet in the 1980’s, he has been focusing on many of the world’s problems. War, social decay and economic suppression, and in particular their impact on children, have been the themes of his work. This persistency was rewarded in October 2003, when he was made a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Spokesperson on War and Poverty for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean. AJA has also founded his own trust and international charity called the International Foundation for Peace and Poverty Eradication (IFPPE).