Gifts and Grants
The following awards were made in 2007:
Adelaide Auxiliary
$72,100
Funding toward the School Lunch Programme, which provides a hot meal to needy children every school day, and the Classroom and Library Renovation project at Adelaide Primary School. The school is working towards the creation of a state-of-the art reading and learning facility.
Bahamas National Youth Choir
$7,000
Renewal of Gold Patron status in support of the country’s premier musical ambassadors, who perform throughout The Bahamas and around the world.
Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation (BREEF)
$15,000
Second installment of a three-year tiered grant to support BREEF’s Marine Conservation Teacher Training programme.
Cancer Society of The Bahamas
$88,655
Proceeds from our partnership with Ride for Hope Bahamas and VMG Racing toward the Cancer Caring Centre and other programmes of the Society.
Children’s Paradise Foundation
$3,000
Supporting academic tutoring at several facilities for orphaned or abandoned children in New Providence, as well as the purchase of new sewing machines and provision of sewing lessons.
Deep Creek Middle School
$10,000
Scholarship assistance for needy students in Deep Creek, Eleuthera. Third and final installment of a three-year grant.
E. P. Taylor (Bahamas) Foundation
$30,000
Funding of clinic expenses at Lyford Cay Hospital.
Every Child Counts
$10,000
Second installment of a three-year recurring grant providing scholarship assistance to Abaco’s sole institution dedicated to helping children with intellectual and physical disabilities who would not otherwise be able to afford special education.
Exceptional Education Outreach
$10,000
Funding of literacy programs on Eleuthera and Harbour Island. Third and final installment of a three-year grant.
Friends of the Environment
$10,000
Purchase of printed materials, classroom equipment and general office supplies for a new Environmental Education Center in Marsh Harbour, Abaco.
Governor General’s Youth Award
$25,000
General operating support of this exceptional international awards programme for young Bahamians. Fourteen to 25-year-olds participate in a balanced, non-competitive curriculum of voluntary activities based on the concept of individual challenge and designed to encourage personal discovery and growth, self-reliance, perseverance, responsibility to themselves and service to their community.
Grand Bahama Children’s Home
$10,000
Purchase of school uniforms, clothing and educational tools for children in this residential facility for orphaned and abandoned children located in Freeport.
Hopedale Centre
$7,500
Annual support of special needs education for children with intellectual disabilities.
Hopedale Foundation
$55,000
Second installment of a three-year grant to underwrite the Clinical Services Programme, vocational training and a micro-enterprise initiative at the Hopedale Centre.
Lyford Cay International School
$30,000
In support of the school’s partial scholarship programme.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Princess Margaret Hospital
$43,926
Purchase of a ventilator in partnership with the Kiwanis Club of New Providence. The NICU is the only facility in The Bahamas providing health care for infants with special needs.
Physically Challenged Children’s Committee
$25,000
To underwrite an ongoing programme benefiting underprivileged children with physical challenges.
Royal Bahamas Police Force Dependents' Trust
$50,000
Educational and other assistance for dependents of police officers who were harmed or killed in the line of duty.
The Sir Victor Sassoon (Bahamas) Heart Foundation
$59,300
Purchase of a portable echocardiograph machine to benefit young patients at Princess Margaret Hospital.
Special Olympics Bahamas
$15,000
Joint grant with The Shirley Oakes Butler Charitable Trust that enabled three young athletes to compete at the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Shanghai.
Wild Horses of Abaco Preservation Society
$3,500
Purchase of materials to extend electric fencing in a preserve that protects endangered horses thought to be direct descendants of a breed brought to The Bahamas more than 500 years ago, during the Europeans’ exploration of the New World.
