Over the last 8 years, Hanover charities have been supporting the work of Farm Up Jamaica to help transform conventional Jamaican farmers into sustainable Regenerative Climate-Smart Agriculture. This holistic approach is improving the environment, food quality and livelihoods of people from several communities in and around Hanover.
Together, Hanover Charities & Farm Up Jamaica are creating lucrative opportunities for families and young people in efforts to transform the mindset and work ethics to be able to compete in this drastically changing environment.
With the launch of our “Bend the Tree While it’s Young Project” at Esher Primary School, we are able to identify some key strategies on how to engage the next generation to feed the planet by simply teaching youth how to feed their school.
Our support of the Farm Up Jamaica “Young Soldiers for Food Security Program” at Heart Trust Kenilworth has sparked the beginning of an international CSR program that allows corporations worldwide to carry out their ESG and carbon offsets here in Hanover Jamaica.
By teaching the next generation to farm sustainably, we can ensure poverty is being eradicated while natural resources are protected.
Given the widespread prevalence of diabetes in Jamaica due to poor eating habits and lack of nutritional knowledge, Dr. Clive McKenzie of Hopewell, passionately teaches the Hanover community how to make healthier dietary choices to prevent this disease.
We take great pride in supporting Dr. McKenzie’s mission of educating both children and adults about preventing diabetes.
Container of Love was born out of the critical needs of the schools and communities we support. Our objective is to annually fill a 40ft container with essential items which we import each summer before the academic year begins. The container contains school supplies, clothing, toiletries, medical equipment, educational tools, non-perishable food, and more. Following distribution, Hanover Charities gifts the container to a community site to facilitate learning in Hanover.
The Sugarcane Ball takes place every year on Presidents’ Weekend, specifically on the second Saturday of February. Renowned as one of the standout events on the bustling winter social calendar, this charitable ball, hosted at Round Hill Hotel, is dedicated to raising funds for the charity.
The global impact of COVID-19 has left our rural communities in Hanover bearing the brunt with thousands left jobless in this unprecedented crisis. Hanover Charities has been committed to supporting those affected through intensifying meal and care package deliveries to those in need.
Each year, we continue to support the Hopewell Jaycees’ Health Fair, held in partnership with Caribbean Health Outreach. This initiative offers check-ups, medications, and education to remote areas of Hanover with limited healthcare accessibility.
In 2021, Hanover Charities distributed over 700 tablets with keyboards, preloaded with educational programs, benefiting students across 25 schools. This collaborative effort with Levelfield JA ensured the procurement of devices with safety features, involving a total project expenditure of USD $131,538.
In collaboration with Books4Kids Jamaica, this initiative annually helps around 1200 Basic & Infant School students in Hanover and parts of Westmoreland, providing Brain Quest workbooks, reading books and necessary school supplies.
At Hanover Charities, our resolute commitment to education is reflected in our contribution of over $500,000USD in scholarships over the past five years alone. These scholarships represent our investment in shaping the Jamaica we aspire to witness.
Regular visitors to our part of Jamaica may have noticed there is a football field at the westend of Hopewell. It was a project of Hanover Charities in 1976 but had fallen into total disrepair.
Nan Brenninkmeyer, a Round Hill shareholder and generous supporter of Hanover Charities, has spearheaded a project to not just revive this field, but add to it, making it a true sporting complex. “The clubhouse has been declared unsafe; the football field needs repairing, and we need to build a structure which will have shower and changing facilities,” she says. In addition, the complex would have an area where the children of Hopewell can do homework and other wholesome activities.
As a result of the tremendous support from our donors, the Hopewell Sports & Community Centre, formerly called the Orchard Sports Complex, saw its grand opening ceremony and ribbon cutting take place on Friday, November 9th, 2018.
The centre offers the following:
Community/Homework Centre
Computer Lab
Two Offices (Hanover Charities & Jaycees)
Multi-purpose Hall with veranda
Basketball and Netball Courts
New Concrete Bleachers
Football Field
Lennox Lewis League of Champions Boxing Gym
External Bathrooms
Solar Panels
Up in the remote hills of Hanover Parish is a custodial home that exemplifies St. Matthew’s admonition: “In as much as you did it to one of the least of these, my brothers, you did it to me.” Westhaven Children’s Home surely houses some of the “least of these” in terms of physical and mental health coupled with a history of neglect, abandonment, abuse, and lack of love.
The Home was started in 1981 by a group of concerned citizens who had worked with the Family Court and Children’s Services. Aware that there were disabled and abandoned children needing not just housing but also love, volunteers were able to open the first cottage in 1981. Now there are four fully operational cottages with 82 children and young adults, ranging from four years to 37 years.
While the home is licensed under the Ministry of Health, the amount of support is “woefully inadequate,” according to Mrs. Gloria Veira, founder and administrator of Westhaven. Hanover Charities is one of the larger supporters, giving in 2016 JA$1 million (US$8,333).
The needs at the Home are great, for everything from adult diapers, wheelchairs, sheets and towels to volunteers to spend time with these disadvanted children and young adults. Mrs. Veira assures us, “we are grateful for any and everything.”
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