"Whatever their socioeconomic conditions
are, children are children, and if we treat children right then we are securing a bright future."
Teacher Negril All Age School
"Whatever their socioeconomic conditions
are, children are children, and if we treat children right then we are securing a bright future."
Teacher Negril All Age School
The Rockhouse Foundation is committed to improving the human condition of Jamaica's children through capital projects that transform learning environments, programs that support child development, and partnerships that leverage the knowledge and experience of the great people working with Jamaica's children.
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Since its inception in 2003, the Foundation has fully renovated and expanded the Negril All Age School, and its primary feeder Pre-K, the Negril Basic School. Both are located about a mile from the hotel and for decades were dilapidated, overcrowded public schools serving the Negril community. The Foundation is currently working on a major rehabilitation and expansion of the Negril Public Library. With the completion of the library in 2009 over US$1,000,000 will have been invested in these projects and associated support programs over the past 4 years.
Every cent of every donation goes directly to support our programs – the Rockhouse Hotel and its owners underwrite all administrative expenses. In Jamaica a donation goes a long way – our projects cost as little as one fifth of the budget for the same project in the United States. Our projects are concrete and have an impact that can be seen. We are on the ground to manage capital projects, monitor programs, maintain facilities, and deliver the resources needed for success. The Rockhouse Foundation is a New York based, IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
"The community is looking at the school in a different light. Even children who would not have
wanted to come here are now looking at the school. Jamaican families do value education. Everybody
wants their children to move a step higher."
Beverley Wedderburn, Principal, Negril All Age School
"I get up in the morning and I feel good about coming to the school, this transformation means a lot
to the local community, everybody is talking about it."
Fiona Vassell, Teacher, Negril All Age School