Proper nutrition is the foundation of a child’s growth, shaping both their physical and cognitive development. This fundamental belief guided the life’s work of Patricia Thompson, registered nutritionist and founder and executive director of the Jamaica Island Nutrition Network (JINN). With a passion for early childhood nutrition, Thompson pioneered the Basic Schools Nutrition Programme, partnering with the Gore Family Foundation…

More than 150 students at three of the island’s top tertiary institutions are now benefiting from scholarships provided by the Gore Family Foundation, which says it is continuing to increase its investment in education as it believes that this is central to Jamaica’s development. In addition to the three tertiary institutions — The Mico University College, The University of the…

RENOWNED CONSTRUCTION giant, Gore Development Limited, through its philanthropic arm, the Gore Family Foundation, presented 10 students of the University of Technology, Jamaica’s Faculty of The Built Environment with scholarships valued at $2.4 million on Thursday, during a formal handover ceremony held at the Shared Facilities Building at the UTech, Jamaica Papine Campus. The scholarships were presented to seven students…

Gore Family Foundation says it has invested $3 million to introduce robotics to 300 basic schoolchildren in Kingston. They will be among the youngest students ever to be exposed to robotics in Jamaica. “We are living in a world that is becoming increasingly technological with each passing day. Introducing the children in our basic schools to robotics at this age…

Since 2020, students at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) pursuing degrees in Psychology or related disciplines, either at the undergraduate or graduate level have had the opportunity to benefit from scholarships provided by the Lisa Gore Seifart Endowment Fund. Annually, the fund allocates US$5,000 to support qualifying students in their academic pursuits. However, this academic year, the…

The Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation has continued to increase its investment in education, which the Gores say is central to Jamaica’s development. The foundation now assists with the management of 10 basic schools in the Kingston area; has started high school life skills programmes at Jamaica College and Alpha and remedial programmes at Charlie Smith High School and…

ORIENTATION for year two of the Rose town Construction Internship programme was held on September 14, and according to the Gore Family Foundation which funds the effort, the beneficiaries are energised. Researcher Jennifer Jones conducted an assessment of the programme and found it to be effective as the first cohort of interns “had matured in self-confidence… self-development, in their understanding…

Twenty-one-year-old Twyrike Campbell is a proud alumnus of Rose Town Construction Internship Programme, which is giving at-risk youth from the inner-city community a fighting chance by steering them towards a productive future. Campbell was one of 20 at-risk youth from the St Andrew-based community, who participated in the first leg of the programme launched in March 2021 by the Phillip…

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Without intervention from The Phillip & Christine Gore Family Foundation in the last 10 months, sickle-cell patient, Twyrike Campbell, who is now recovering after having an ulcer in his left leg, feels he would have gone down a path of destruction. According to the 21-year-old inner-city youth, who resides in the violence-plagued and divided community of Rose Town in Kingston,…

A Participatory Mid-Term Evaluation of the Rose Town Construction Internship Programme

The Rose Town Construction Internship: A Mid-Term Evaluation

E. Nadine Isaacs Memorial Lecture Bruce Golding May 12, 2022 Allow me, first, to commend the Phillip and Christine Gore Foundation for its faithfulness in honouring each year the memory of a trailblazer in the conceptualization of housing solutions for the underserved population of Jamaica. Those of us who knew Nadine Isaacs and who, like me, had the privilege of…

The National Housing Trust (NHT) has the budget to finance housing solutions for low-income earners who are not NHT contributors, says former Prime Minister Bruce Golding. He made the remark while delivering the main address at the E Nadine Isaacs Memorial Lecture, which was held last week at Jamaica College in St Andrew. In discussing the Gore Developments Limited’s legacy…

Located in the tough neighbourhood of South St. Andrew, Rose Town has faced its share of challenges for decades such as poverty, unemployment and violent crime. Today, good things are happening in the community. One such is a construction internship programme for young men and women, funded by the Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation. The foundation is partnering with…

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THE chancellor and board of directors of Mico University College has announced that Christine Gore, attorney-at-law, philanthropist and leader in early childhood education, will be its honorary graduand this year. Gore will receive a doctor of education (EdD) in leadership (honoris causa) in recognition of her outstanding contribution to leadership in early childhood education and to philanthropy in the wider…

The Mico University College has conferred an honorary doctoral degree on one of the island’s foremost philanthropists. The co-founder of the Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation, Christine Gore was invested with the 2021 Doctor of Education in Leadership (Honoris Causa) degree on Wednesday at the institution’s virtual graduation exercise for the Class of 2021. In accepting the doctorate, Gore…

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…

December 11 was International Mountain Day. The observation is an initiative of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization to highlight the importance of the world’s highlands. Half the world’s biodiversity hotspots and one third of the world’s plant species occur in mountains, including the Blue Mountains and the John Crow Mountains. The theme for International Mountain Day 2020 is…

An early morning breakfast meeting that Chairman of Gore Developments Limited (GDL), Phillip Gore, attended in 2018, quickly evolved into the Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation (“Gore Family Foundation”) taking fifty at-risk youth under their wings. Overnight, Mrs. Christine Gore became a mother-figure to fifty youth who had, up until that point in their lives, fallen through the cracks…