Charity

The Anglican-run Clifton Boys’ Home in Westmoreland, burned out in 2017, needed just under $10 million more in 2020 to finish a $60 million rebuild, while its boys lived at a church in Caledonia.

In July 2020 the Anglican-run Clifton Boys’ Home rebuild in Westmoreland still needed about $10 million of its $60 million cost, even after an $18 million boost from the Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run.

The JN Foundation gave 500 care packages in 2020 to Missionaries of the Poor, whose six homes in Kingston and St Andrew care for about 500 elderly, disabled and vulnerable people, as pandemic donations fell.

After a century-old Williamsburg church that qualified for a tax exemption nearly had a $203,000 lien sold on its building, New York City Council unanimously passed a law to keep about 13,000 charitable properties out of the annual tax lien sale.

The Salvation Army’s Hanbury Home in Kendal, Manchester, caring for 47 children in partly century-old lumber buildings, planned a modern kitchen and multipurpose hall under new administrator Lt Adrian Edwards in 2019.

After Hurricane Dorian, more than 50 Grand Bahama churches partnered with a Port Authority-backed relief foundation to reach families from West End to Sweetings’ Cay, as the effort shifted from food to building supplies for rebuilding homes.

A fire in downtown Kingston destroyed the Missionaries of the Poor’s Good Shepherd Home, leaving at least 60 wards and more than two dozen tenement residents homeless, and prompting Father Richard Ho Lung to ask where they would live.

The Anglican Church broke ground in 2019 on a $60 million, two-storey Clifton Boys’ Home in Darliston, Westmoreland, to replace the building destroyed by fire in 2017, with about $30 million raised and capacity rising to 40 boys.

Food For The Poor Jamaica set its 2018 5K a goal of funding 100 extra houses at US$7,200 each, half paid by FFP in Florida, on top of about 700 homes a year it was already building.

A board member said the Anglican-run Wortley Home for Girls was in financial crisis before its 2015 fire, unable to cover utilities, food and salaries, and that its bigger rebuilt home needs more staff to reach full capacity.

After hurricanes Irma and Maria, Samaritan’s Purse set out plans to repair or rebuild hundreds of homes and dozens of churches across Puerto Rico, Barbuda, Dominica and St Martin, working through local congregations.

An ecumenical partnership run through Church World Service repaired or built 110 houses in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew, at US$4,000 to US$5,000 per new home, with United Church of Christ disaster funds also helping schools and health work.

A Kent school ended ties with a Christian teaching charity after parents complaint of extremist ideology. The charity denies it; the underlying tension over what a faith school owes non-religious families remains unresolved.

A Kent school ended ties with a Christian teaching charity after parents complaint of extremist ideology. The charity denies it; the underlying tension over what a faith school owes non-religious families remains unresolved.

Charity Baptist Church sold its Crown Heights building, the former Fox Savoy Theater, for $575,000 in 2012 on a promise of ground-floor space in the new development. Records showed its sanctuary placed in the cellar instead.