Our Board of Directors is meeting tomorrow, and I just completed the budget estimate for sending our scholarship students to school for the upcoming year.

The total comes to more than $3,000,000 for just one year.

Isn’t it interesting that school is considered “free” in Jamaica?

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May I ask how many students are financed by this seeminly huge figure?

That amount covers 19 students. Plus, to assist the community at large, we use additional funds for several different programs in the schools in Treasure Beach. More information is published in our occasional newsletter. If you would like to subscribe, click the link and send us an email telling us that, and we'll be glad to put you on our mailing list. Please be sure to include your name and postal mailing address.

Continue to be impressed by the work Treasure Beach Foundation does in the community. They have a clear focus on education and put their money where their mouth is.

This amount is in Jamaican dollars, right?

Yes it is JD. Its still a big amount and something the community is greatful for. These scholarships is helping with opportunity.

At $JA85 to US$1, that's US$35,314.89.

As a scholarship recipient for the past three years, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to TBF for the oppurtunity they have awarded to the other scholarship awardees and myself.Thank you for your unwavering interest in our education.It is greatly appreciated.

I would also like to implore you all to give generously and willingly to this a worthy cause.Your money will certainly not go to waste.

To those who are always supporting us, I'd like to thank you, for with out your kind contributions this program may not have been so successful.Thanks a million.......

I am the mother of one of the 2010 scholarship winners, and i must admit how the tremendous help it has been for me in sending my daughter to school.Thanks a million Mrs Kennedy and your team. May the good lord continue to strengthen and keep you and of course reward you for the good work you are doing.

Thank God for people who cares, i think for a student to receive some scholarship their grade has to exceede 70%, most of these students has to do extra lesson and sometimes private lesson (one on one). Does the students who have the potential, but might not have the money to do extra lessons, is there any help for those students. Sometimes these students are not even able to go on to high school, because of lack of funds.

I think there is some misunderstanding about how the scholarships are awarded. From what I have heard, it takes well more than a 70% average at Sandy Bank to GET a scholarship. The 70% has to do with KEEPING a scholarship after one is received, and that grade needs to come from the high school.

Clarification, notice what parent said, the grade has to exceede 70% for the student to receive any scholarship.