VM Foundation expands Under 13 Football Competition with UpLift Programme for student-athletes, coaches
Partnership with Project Gold and We Imagine, merges leadership, football and financial education The VM Foundation, through its UpLift programme, recently conducted a series of personal and professional development sessions in football skills-training, financial planning and leadership workshops for Under-13 student-footballers and their coaches. The sessions were held in partnership with Project Gold and We […]
VM Foundation, Jamaica Library Service Reigniting a Nation’s Language and Financial Literacy
The VM Foundation has contributed one million dollars ($1,000,000) in support of the Jamaica Library Service’s (JLS) flagship programme, the National Reading Competition. The donation, which was made at a symbolic handover and contract signing ceremony held recently, represents a new partnership between the two entities aimed at amping up the island-wide promotion of literacy […]
VM FOUNDATION GIFTS $4.5M TO ADOPT-A-CLINIC PROGRAMM
St. Jago Park Health Centre to benefit from upgraded equipment, wellness and education programme Kingston, Jamaica: The VM Foundation has officially renewed its partnership with the Ministry of Health & Wellness’ Adopt-a-Clinic Programme with a $4.5 million commitment to the St. Jago Park Health Centre in St Catherine for the provision of well-needed medical equipment. […]
VM Foundation launches mentorship programme for scholarship awardees
The VM Foundation has partnered with the MultiCare Youth Foundation to launch a mentorship programme for scholarship recipients, starting with over 50 students between the ages of 13 and 24 in the 2021 cohort of the VM Foundation’s scholarship programme. The mentorship programme, which pairs awardees with VM Group team members, will see mentees receiving […]
NLPB, VM Foundation gift Clifton Boys’ Home $750K
The National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB) Committee, in collaboration with the VM Foundation, on Tuesday (March 1) handed over $750,000 to the Clifton Boy’s Home towards its Education Intervention Project, aimed at helping wards experiencing academic decline due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds, handed over during a ceremony at the VM Group’s Half-Way Tree […]
VMIL, UWIDEF launch scholarship programme
For Immediate Release Thursday, October 7, 2021 KINGSTON, Jamaica – VM Investments Limited (VMIL), in collaboration with the VM Foundation, have partnered with the University of the West Indies Development and Endowment Fund (UWIDEF) to launch a scholarship programme for UWI students pursuing a degree in Business, Management, Data Analytics/Data Science and Economics. The scholarship, […]
VM Foundation supports UHWI field hospitals
For Immediate Release October 5, 2021 KINGSTON, Jamaica – VM Foundation, which contributed US$12,000 ($1.75 million) towards the completion of the new University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) field hospital, is commending the entity and private sector partners for the completion of the 40-bed facility to care for COVID-19 patients. The field hospital, equipped […]
Schools Receive Tablets From Prayer Breakfast Donations
Offerings and donations received during and after the 2021 staging of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB), executed in partnership with the Victoria Mutual Foundation, have been used to provide 30 new tablet devices to students at three primary schools. The schools – Tranquility Primary School in Portland; Cairn Currant Primary in Westmoreland; and Caledonia […]
VM Foundation Empowers Youth in Social Enterprise Programme
The Victoria Mutual Foundation has empowered some 10,000 secondary-level students in the areas of financial literacy and entrepreneurship with the provision of high-level financial education content and training, through its partnership with the British Council on the Social Enterprise in Secondary Schools (SESS-J) Programme, which concluded in March. In addition to an investment of some […]
VM Foundation Gifts Computers to Local Institutions in Refurbish for Change Initiative
The Victoria Mutual (VM) Foundation through a new ‘Refurbish for Change’ initiative, recently donated 130 fully restored computers to educational and community development institutions across the island. Eight early childhood and primary-level schools, three high schools, a service organisation and a church were the recipients of desktop, all-in-one and laptop computers, handed over during a […]
