Computer Corners! GFF’s basic schools now boasting a computer corner in each school. Equipment donated by GDL, apps and videos uploaded by our IT Playmates…Moya McLeod, Renee Chambers, Damone Downer and ex-GDL scholar Sicquena Sinclair. Our Playmates are assigned to their respective schools where they gather different age groups to fully understand basic computer technology, use the apps aligned with…
FAIRFIELD, St James — National coordinator for the Housing, Opportunities, Production and Employment (HOPE) programme, Colonel Martin Rickman, is calling on the private sector and government entities to partner with the State-run programme in an effort to create more opportunities for vulnerable youths across the island. There is an estimated 200,000 vulnerable and unattached youths islandwide; however, the HOPE programme…
The Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation presented HEART Trust/NTA with $6 million last Friday at the signing of their partnership agreement. Through the Government of Jamaica’s Housing Opportunity Production and Employment (HOPE) Initiative, youths from 18-24 years are engaged in the National Service Corps Programme (NSCP). NSCP is implemented through the HEART Trust/NTA and targets unattached youths who will…
The Gore Foundation and HEART Trust\NTA are keeping hope alive for youth in the Granville, St James by providing persons between the ages of 18 and 24 with training and work experience. This is being done in partnership with the Prime Minister’s Housing, Opportunities, Production and Employment (HOPE) Policy Initiative and implemented through the National Service Corps. The Phillip and…
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…