LHJ Scholarship Programme

The Adina Cornwall Scholarship Fund (ACSF) was established in memory of the mother of Director, Dameon Black. Sister Enid, as she was called, was passionate about giving and giving back. She believed young people, no matter who they are or where they are from, should be given opportunities to better their lives. She would back up that belief tangibly by giving out of her meagre resources to assist a young person.

Since 2015 LHJ has been contributing, through the ACSF, to a student of the Jamaica Theological Seminary, who is pursuing a programme of study to help other young people in the development process. In 2020, another dimension was added to the Programme. Each year a candidate with leadership qualities and identifiable potential, is selected from among the poor families who are assisted by LHJ. This individual is assisted with his/her career goals. Upon completing his/her course of study, s/he is expected to assist the Family in achieving economic independence.

LHJ is currently, successfully, working with one such candidate, selected for the year 2020. She is attending the Mico University College.

LHJ Basic Needs Programme

LHJ’s Basic Needs Programme (BNP) was instituted in 2020 to address the economic crises that poor families were facing due to the advent of COVID-19. Families whose head of household was unemployed and who had no economic grounding, were further impacted by the Pandemic. They felt their safety nets (family members who would usually assist and had now lost their jobs) falling out from under them.

In response to appeals for help, Living Hope Jamaica implemented a programme which supplies care packages and medical assistance to these families once every other month. This intervention is not expected to be a permanent fix but to assist until the families can find their footing again.

Families are selected based on their levels of need. After the request or recommendation is received, a social worker is sent to visit with the families to do a needs assessment for each. It is on the recommendation of the Social Worker that a family is placed on the list of recipients for our care package intervention.