Three major entities on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Montego Bay to forge a public-private partnership that is aimed at granting some 25 unattached youths the opportunity to transform their lives through a major skills-training and apprenticeship programme. The three entities, the Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation, Heart Trust/NTA and the Government’s Housing, Opportunity, Production and…
Several Basic Schools in the corporate area supported by the Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation received much-needed capital improvements during the last school semester. Chetolah Park Infant School received new kitchen cupboards as a result of the Foundation’s collaboration with Eurotrend Manufacturing Limited who again answered the call of the needy and provided beautiful cupboards for the School’s kitchen.…
Several Basic Schools in the corporate area supported by the Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation received much-needed capital improvements during the last school semester. Chetolah Park Infant School received new kitchen cupboards as a result of the Foundation’s collaboration with Eurotrend Manufacturing Limited who again answered the call of the needy and provided beautiful cupboards for the School’s kitchen.…
The University of the West Indies’ Reach Up and Learn early childhood parenting program is being administered by the Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation in six (6) of the Foundation’s Basic Schools namely Arnold Road Methodist Basic School, Chetolah Park Infant School, Gospel Refuge Basic School, Sandy Park Basic School, St. Anne’s Infant School and Vouch Sylvia Foote Basic…
One the occasion of a donor appreciation reception held by the Mico University College, the Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation was honoured for its continued provision of the James F Gore Memorial Schloaship and the Clarice May Gore Memorial Scholarship. The Foundation’s Christine Gore addressed the gathering on the personal significance of the Scholarships to her. “When I was…
At the end of the Christmas term 2017, the Gore Family Foundation (GFF) Team met individually with each Basic Schools’ Principal to review the results of their students’ ‘Developmental Assessment’, which was conducted at the start of the school year. Programs being conducted by the Foundation in each school were reviewed, namely Play & Stay Tennis, Reach Up & Learn…
Gore Family Foundation’s Natalee Robertson was delighted to attend at Providence Methodist Basic School on Old Hope Road, Sunday July 16. The occasion was the school’s ceremony on being official certified by the Early Childhood Commission (ECC). Miss Robertson, on behalf of the Foundation’s Director, Christine Gore, accepted a plaque from the school’s Principal, Mrs. Cathryn Smith-Gayle. The award represents…
Mr. Errol Spence of Berkeley & Spence, Quantity Surveyors finished up the final semester of the first Construction Project Management Course held at Jamaica College in style. In two sessions of 3 hours each, the students were introduced to an overview of real estate development and how the building industry fits in with that section of the economy and specifically,…
The Gore Family Foundation hosted three workshops, two during April and one in May to train our Play & Stay Coaches in preparation for the May 13 start-up date for the Reach Up and Learn programme. In brief – Reach Up and Learn comprises: Goals for the Mother / (Parent) Gain knowledge and insight on how a child develops Improve…
The Reach and Learn Programme is coming to the GFF’s Basic Schools! Our workshop dedicated to the programme, commenced on Wednesday April 12, 2017 and concluded on Thursday April 13, 2017 at the Lee Gore Business Centre, starting at 8:30am with the Tennis, Academic Coaches and our Volunteers. Dr. Chang Lopez and Christine Powell from UWI’s Reach Up & Learn…