Why the fund needs your help

•                Organise and run the annual tournament enabling students to
                 showcase their skills to the visiting college coaches.
•                Provide pastoral care for students in need away from home;
•                Educational support to assist students to gain their SATs

 A student’s story

 “I had passed my SATs, showed my skills on the pitch and got myself the scholarship so I thought the hard part was over how wrong could I be. Going away to college was the first time I had ever left home and had to fend for myself.

 I was one of the lucky ones on a full scholarship but there was so much it didn’t cover like, posters to make my room homey, a radio to hear the news from home, soap, toothpaste, money to print your assignments or the $2-3 to wash my clothes every week. Little things I know but when you are away from home everything becomes a big deal.

 The money from the fund really helped. I remember the first time I saw snow. I had only been at the college a few weeks and the weather changed. That year I really learned to understand the meaning of the word COLD. Having grown up in Jamaica nothing prepared me for the shock, the t-shirts and light jacket I brought with me were no good against that sort of weather. My family just about made enough money to support themselves, sending money to me just was not an option for them. The fund helped me buy a coat and arranged for one of the sponsors to pay for my flight home to see my family for Christmas.

 Without that additional help I would have never made it to my final year. As soon as I start working I plan to give back, even if only a can give back a few dollars a month.”
 

How to donate

“Jonathan’s death was a life gone too soon a talent stolen” Jamaica Observer Teen Herald – Jan 2003