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…