VM Foundation awards $7 million in new scholarships, bursaries

  (From left) Samantha Charles, CEO, VM Foundation; is joined by scholarship recipients Shanice Derby, Erlado Holmes, Coyotito Rose, Sarah Williams, Georgiana Weir, and Joshua Reid, following the Surrey staging of the VM Foundation’s Scholars Programme awards ceremony on Wednesday, September 11, at the VM Building Society Half-Way Tree location.   The VM Foundation has […]

VM UpLift poised to score more goals this year

The VM Foundation officially kicked off the return of its highly anticipated VM UpLift Under-13 Football Competition, on April 11, through a partnership with the St James Football Association, with 25 schools registered to participate. This year’s event, which has seen an increase in the number of schools registered, will go beyond the enhancement of […]

VM Foundation and NLA Land Titling Project Kicks off in Lawrence Tavern

Qualified residents in possession of unregistered parcels of land in sections of Lawrence Tavern, St. Andrew, are set to have their lands formally registered thanks to the VM Foundation, in partnership with the National Land Agency (NLA). The residents are being assisted as part of the first phase of the Land Titling Project Agreement signed […]

VM Foundation Banks On Literacy With Lead Sponsorship Of National Reading Competition

  The VM Foundation has again donated $1 million to the Jamaica Library Service (JLS), to support the 36th staging of the National Reading Competition, held under the theme: ‘Reading is LIT’. As the title sponsor of the programme, the donation underscores the importance of this partnership focused on promoting literacy throughout Jamaica, empowering youth […]

VM Foundation gives back $7 million through Scholars Programme

The VM Foundation continues to make great strides in fulfilling its mission of transforming lives through education and youth empowerment, by successfully disbursing a record sum of over $7 million to secondary and tertiary scholars through the VM Foundation Scholars Programme. The scholars received awards including the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Bursary, Junior Plan Scholarship […]

Special Olympics Jamaica welcomes VM Foundation’s support

VM Foundation & Chief Executive Officer Samantha Charles (right) presents a symbolic cheque to Special Olympics Jamaica (SOJ) swimmers (in pool, from left) Andrew Bartholomew, Andrew McIntosh, Tasheanna Bailey and Kadian Ingleton; and (background, from left) SOJ Executive Director Coleridge Howell and swim coaches Marissa Hayman, Alecia Newman Walsh and Brittany Williams at the University […]

VM Foundation, USAID impact youth in vulnerable communities through crime prevention and entrepreneurship project

  THE VM Foundation has partnered with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Local Partner Development (LPD) programme, to execute a crime prevention and entrepreneurship training programme for youth in vulnerable communities in Kingston. The programme, dubbed Project IMPACT, engages 15 individuals in entrepreneurship and business development training, conflict resolution and […]