Barrett Town Scholarship Program Fundraiser for 2020-2021

In 2016, HTIL set a 5 year goal dubbed 20 by 2020: the goal was to provide educational support for 20 students from the Barrett Town community by 2020. We have reached that 5th year to realize its goal and create a much needed impact, especially, in this pandemic stricken climate that has disrupted the livelihood of and imposed economic …

Barrett Town Scholarship Program Fourth Endowment – 2019

For the fourth consecutive year, HTIL realized its mission of impacting the lives of students from the Barrett Town Community in (St. James, Jamaica) through its annual scholarship program. With the addition of 4 new scholarship recipients for the 2019-2020 school year, HTIL bequeathed stipends and back to school supplies to 17 scholars. The 17 scholars included Academic Awardees: 2019 …

Special Delivery for Jaheim

On Christmas Day, in what was a surprise, Mr. Hemmings showed up at the door steps of Jaheim Gordon (one of the scholarship recipients who was featured in HTIL Scholarship fundraiser video), and accompanying him was a small gift bag and big black sack – all with gifts, on behalf of HTIL for Jaheim. The gifts included: 4 pairs of …

Barrett Town Scholarship Program Second Endowment

Aug 17 2017, HTIL hosted an award ceremony for the 2017-2018 Barrett Town Scholarship Program awardees. This was the second installment of the scholarship program (dubbed as 20 by 2020) which started last year. For 2016-2017 school year, 4 scholars received $250 USD each; for this 2017-2018 school year, 8 scholars received $250 USD (approximately $32,000 JMD) each in addition to …