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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…
The Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation (The “Gore Family Foundation”) regards education as being central to Jamaica’s development and has therefore awarded more than one hundred academic scholarships to students over the past sixteen years. These scholarships have helped to afford deserving tertiary students facing financial challenges at The Mico University College (The “Mico”), The University of the West…
COVID19 guidelines for school safety required several very specific changes to the layout of our GFF Sponsored Basic School classrooms. The list of required changes was daunting to say the least. Without the overwhelming support of Food for the Poor by way of their very generous donation of 50 desk sets (1 table & 4 chairs per set), 22 single…
The Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation (GFF) continues on its mission to upgrade and enhance the standard of Early Childhood Education in Jamaican Basic Schools. The GFF believes in the importance of teaching children healthy eating habits from a young age. Proper nutrition is one of the most essential components in the growth and development of minds and bodies…
Moment of pride for the 14 Jamaica College students graduating from the 2017-18 Construction Project Management Course (CPM), as they are officially handed their certificates on October 12, 2018. The Gleaner’s Automotive Coordinator, Mr. Kareem Latouche (a JC ‘Old Boy’ himself) was there as guest speaker and presenter. The graduates didn’t just learn all the theory surrounding the theme –…
Gore Family Foundation/GFF & Gore Developments Limited/GDL Construction Project Management Course @ Jamaica College…Just Keeps Rolling On! From a germ of an idea, to a draft document aimed at conveying everything there is to know about Construction Project Management, to a confirmed course, schedule of classes, kitting out a JC classroom with the proper computer equipment and state-of-the-art technology, to…
One of Gore Family Foundation’s (GFF) core values, which they insist be part of any one of their basic school’s programmes (and there are several in each of our schools!), is that of proper nutrition. Good nutrition fosters good health in young children and encourages learning! To this end each school has its own nutrition programme and the school cooks…
Leading Florida-based Cardiologist Dr. Kevin Coy recently donated US$20,000 to the Kingston Public Hospital ,which was smoothly and quickly facilitated by the Gore Family Foundation’s (GFF) partner – the American Friends of Jamaica. Dr. Coy’s specific request and direction was for GFF to first of all, purchase an autoclave for the sterilisation of KPH’s operating equipment. So said, so done!…
And…they’re off! The 2018-2019 Gore Development Limited (GDL) sponsored Construction Project Management Course at Jamaica College gets underway…now in its third year! Going on strong! Check out this year’s ‘crop’ of young enthusiasts (6th formers) as Dr. Claire Sutherland, once more, provides her invaluable time and effort to impart all there is to know about ‘project coordination’ … for the…
The summer holidays came around and our 2017-2018 JC boys went into action; testing all the theory learned over the just finished school year. 10 students from the Construction Project Management Course went ‘on site’ for a 2-week practical stint (July 9-20, every week day!) at GDL’s Phoenix Park development at Dunbeholden, Portmore, St. Catherine. The aspiring project managers were…
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…
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…
The Mico University College is forging ahead in curriculum development for teachers, by introducing tennis as part of its P.E Teachers’ course. In the September 2017 school term, the great sport of tennis will feature and continue for two years. The course was designed by Douglas M. Burke, currently President of the top tennis club in Canada – ACE –…
Friday, April 7 at 10:00 am sharp saw the arrival of the Jamaica College Robotics Team for a ‘meet and greet’ at Gore Developments Limited’s offices and a mini-tour. Led by Dimario Campbell, the team rolled up in their bus, bang on time, with all their trophies in tow and, of course, with the robot herself — yes, it’s a…
The Paediatric First Aid workshop took place at the Amy Bailey Basic School on Tuesday April 18 and Wednesday April 19, 2017. ‘E-Fast’ delivered the training presenters were Mr. Ricardo Bennett and Mr. Westman Prince, both certified instructors. The training had two parts theory and one part practical. All theory work was held on the first day of the training…
As the TSF programme officially closes, evolving as it has into the Phillip & Christine Gore Family Foundation (GFF), it is important to document the Foundation’s origins and the major role TSF played in the lives of young scholarship recipients and their achievements. The following is a testimonial by Brandon Burke** (**see footnote) on his involvement with the programme. “My…
The Construction Project Management Course at Jamaica College, sponsored by Gore Developments Limited (GDL) and with Gore Family Foundation (GFF) coordinating, is now hosting its fourth session and moving along at a brisk pace. Already, the enthusiastic students have been briefed thoroughly on construction project management by Dr. Claire Sutherland, “schooled” in architecture by Ms. Doris Gross, after which Mr.…
The Gore Family Foundation (GFF) was delighted to find a cache of Play & Stay tennis equipment hidden away in storage. The pristine, lightweight racquets and big, colourful balls are the tools coaches need to teach Play & Stay tennis at basic schools and on which enthusiastic, young tennis players love to learn. Former First Lady of the United States…
Fayan Fisher has been Gore Development Limited’s Clarice May Gore Memorial Scholar at The Mico University College since 2014. A keen advocate and enthusiast of early childhood education, Fisher is determined to take complete advantage of her scholarship and pursue her chosen discipline to the fullest extent. Fisher’s achievements so far have not been accomplished without personal struggle and sacrifice.…
Play & Stay Tennis was developed and is administered by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The equipment – lightweight racquets and colourful tennis balls – are specially designed by the ITF for young children to use with ease and to enjoy the game from the first lesson. Play & Stay is recognised worldwide and each country’s national tennis association’s programme…
Helping Hands is Karl’s Hale’s” ‘baby’; now resident in Canada, Karl is a steadfast friend to the Gore Family Foundation (GFF) (via the tennis connection) and Jamaica, as he is directly involved with Volunteer Tourism too. Through Helping Hands’ kind donation, GFF is the recipient of Cdn$15,000, to be used to fund the ‘Reach Up and Learn Programme’. Headed up…
The 2016-2017 Nadine Isaacs Memorial scholars are: Miss Ashley Williamson and Mr. Andre Purge. Both students are pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Studies at UTECH. The memorial scholarship’s namesake, Everyl Nadine Isaacs, B. Arch, Dip. Bldg. Science, FJIA, was born in Jamaica in 1942 to Ivy and Wills Isaacs and was forever and always known as ‘Nadine Isaacs’. She…
The Gore Family Foundation (GFF) in collaboration with Mrs. Neadene Tufton formed a KPH Support Team in September and the initiative has already reaped rewards with the timely arrival and delivery of a laparoscopy machine, which was ‘stranded’ in Barbados, having been donated to KPH by Arbutus Medical Inc. of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Arbutus Medical works with surgeons around the…
Back-to-School in September for the children of Chetolah Park Primary, Sandhurst Early Childhood, Mission Hall Methodist and St Anne’s Infant schools proved to be much more fun than usual. The principals at all four schools were approached by the Gore Family Foundation (GFF), regarding Play & Stay Tennis lessons for the young students and as the new term began, and…
VOUCH Sylvia Foote, one of the Gore Family Foundation’s (GFF) basic schools under its wing, is the latest recipient of the GFF’s concerted effort to upgrade the necessary infrastructure and give the school a ‘lift’. The GFF team was keen to get repairs going on the many “lapses” and gaping holes in the perimeter fence, which posed a security problem…
Jamaica College has launched a new and exciting course into their 5th and 6th Forms’ curriculum – Construction Project Management. The brainchild of Gore Developments Limited (GDL) with administrative input from the Gore Family Foundation’s team, Phillip Gore’s Alma Mater, Jamaica College (JC) has commenced providing 14 select students with the ‘ins and outs’ of construction project management – a…
Christine Gore, Director of the Gore Family Foundation (GFF) took pleasure in officially handing over the Tennis Course & Development Manual for P.E. Teachers to Mr. John Bailey, Tennis Jamaica’s current President. The manual prepared by Mr. Douglas Burke, former Davis Cup Captain for Jamaica, National Coach/Tennis Director, (1994-2010) and 2013 recipient of Tennis Canada’s‘ Coaching Excellence Award, is a…
Ex-Jamaica College student, Mr. Kuti Ra, graduated from Hillel Academy’s International Baccalaureate (IB) 2-year Diploma Programme for High School Seniors on Thursday, May 26. With 16 CXC passes already under his belt (yes, 16 with 8 distinctions!), the young man was deemed the perfect candidate to benefit from the rich academic experience of Hillel Academy’s IB programme, and he didn’t…
Caroline Pryor, a Florida track star whose mother is Jamaican, and Christine Gore have partnered in a sheet drive for the 425-bed Kingston Public Hospital (KPH). Pryor, in a deal with Lilly Pulitzer chain of boutiques, set up a ‘shop and share’ arrangement for friends and family to buy within a certain time period, after which she would receive 10…
AFUWI (American Foundation for the University of The West Indies) 2016 Vice-Chancellor’s Award to Phillip & Christine Gore, held February 24, 2016.
Phillip Gore speaking on KLAS’ Financially Focused programme on Wednesday, March 2, 2016.
2009 – Jahvair Mullings to Norfolk State on Tennis Scholarship 2013 – Phillip Gore and Christine Gore Meet Scholarship Recipients Shavonique Morrison and Oswald Robinson 2014 – Eearly Childhood Tennis Fun Day Staged in Hanover 2014 – Gore Foundation to the Rescue 2015 – Gore, Eurotrend Assist Basic School 2015 – Young Players Impress At “Play and Stay Tennis”
The Foundation has been set up specifically to help Jamaica’s basic and primary schools, to improve in every way, every aspect of a child’s well-being and capacity to learn. We make inroads into the schools by identifying a basic or primary school, setting up meetings with the Principals to explain our aims and methods with the emphasis on how our…
Tennis Court becomes a Reality at the Shady Grove Basic School! Labour Day, May 25, 2015, was indeed a very happy one for the students and staff at the Shady Grove Basic School. As budding tennis players (and very keen ones too!), the Shady Grove children got their very own tennis court. Parents, staff, students and their siblings at Shady…