The Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation is making a difference in Jamaica, one community at a time. Now it is Rose Town and they have tried different things to give the community’s youth a fighting chance at escaping the ravages of poverty. Their latest project, an internship programme that seeks to train youth in the multi-faceted business of construction,…
Fifteen young residents from the Rose Town community in Kingston, are to participate in the Gore Family Foundation (GFF) Construction Internship Programme at the Gore Homes Phoenix Park Development in St Catherine. Christine Gore, Director of GFF commented: “Whilst the main focus of GFF has been Early Childhood Education, we could not ignore the complex and pressing issue of at-risk…
The Gore Family Foundation has initiated a special internship programme to benefit 15 at-risk youth between the age of 16 and 24 from Rose Town in Kingston, who will then return to their community to execute a redevelopment project. Under the Rose Town Internship Programme, the participants are transported five days per week to the newly established, high-tech training centre…
The Gore Family Foundation has initiated a special internship programme to benefit 15 at-risk youth between the age of 16 and 24 from Rose Town in Kingston, who will then return to their community to execute a redevelopment project. Under the Rose Town Internship Programme, the participants are transported five days per week to the newly established, high-tech training centre…
It’s not likely to find an abundance of rose gardens in Rose Town, located in the bowels of Kingston’s tough inner-city enclave. It is not difficult then for one to understand the daily challenges there, especially the youth. Christine Gore, director of the Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation, Christine Gore, talks about the efforts to transform the youth in…
A construction training programme for at-risk youth from the Rose Town community in Kingston has been funded to the tune of $20 million by the Gore Family Foundation. The programme, which was launched last week at Lee Gore Business Centre in St Andrew in collaboration with the Rose Town Foundation, will offer training and certification in several areas including masonry,…
Twenty at-risk youths from Rose Town, Kingston, will be given a second chance at becoming “confident and independent” Jamaicans when they commence training in a construction internship programme, come April. The programme, which was launched last Thursday, is a project of the Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation in partnership with the Rose Town Foundation. Christine Gore, an attorney-at-law, said…