St. Paul's Church Receives Grant for Jamaica Mission Project

St. Paul’s Church has received $3,000 from The Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire’s Millennium Development Goals Grant Fund to support the St. Paul’s Jamaica Mission Project in Chantilly, Jamaica.

The three main focuses of Mission Project in Jamaica are: education and nutrition (preschool for 3-5 year olds at $250/per child a year), medical services (the team brings medical supplies to leave after the week) and cultural understanding between Americans and Jamaicans—especially between the youth. In recent years, St. Paul’s youth have gone to Jamaica to help St. Stephen’s Anglican Church with their Vacation Bible School Program, which serves 200-300 children each summer.

The New Hampshire Diocesan Outreach Commission budgets modest annual grants for non-profit projects/partnerships deemed by the Millennium Development Goals Committee to best fulfill the goals of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger; universal primary education; gender equality/empowering women; reducing child mortality; improving maternal health; combatting HIV/AIDS, malaria, disease; environmental sustainability and global partnership development.

For more information about St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, visit their website at stpaulsconcord.org. St. Paul’s is part of The Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. More at nhepiscopal.org/.

Caption: Courtesy Photo of Students at Chantilly’s Basic School – with new toothbrushes provided by Concord’s St. Paul’s Church Jamaica Mission team. Photograph by Geoff Forester.

Courtesy text and photo.