2025 Grant Recipients
2025 Grant Recipients
Education
Antigua & Barbuda Centre for Dyslexia Awareness (ABCDA)
A nonprofit organization providing specialized support to children living with dyslexia in Antigua and Barbuda. ABCDA offers screening assessments, tutoring, and scholarship assistance so that children of families that could not otherwise afford help are not left behind. Its emphasis on early identification and intervention gives children the coping strategies they need to learn, achieve, and reach their full potential. Without the Centre, many children with learning difficulties would simply fall through the cracks. ABCDA is based at the corner of Bendals and All Saints Roads.
St. Michael’s School
A small, private primary school serving boys and girls in the Cassada Gardens, St. George community. Operating with very modest resources, the school provides a caring and steady foundation in the early years of learning, where every bit of support makes a meaningful difference to its pupils and teachers. Students benefit from supportive amenities such as extracurricular clubs, cultural activities, sports programs, enrichment initiatives, and community service opportunities that build confidence, teamwork, and positive character traits. All this is done “On the Lord’s side,” as the school continues to provide generations of excellence in education.
St. Nicholas Primary School
A nonprofit primary school in the Hodges Bay area of St. John’s. Established in 1988, St. Nicholas receives no government grants and is funded entirely through school fees. The school’s exceptionally active Parents’ Association has provided everything from whiteboards and interactive projectors to library books and sports equipment. True to its motto, “Learners Today, Leaders Tomorrow,” the school is dedicated to helping every pupil reach their full potential within a happy, caring, and stimulating environment. St. Nicholas has earned a strong reputation for academic, sporting, and social achievement.
Sunnyside Tutorial School
A private primary school at Paynter’s Estate, near Green Bay in St. George that has guided generations of young learners through their foundational school years. Established in 1959, Sunnyside’s mission is to ensure that students develop educationally, physically, morally, spiritually, and socially, equipping each child with skills and character that will serve them well in the years to come. The school participates in community and national events, such as local choir performances and the National Junior Panorama.
The Mill Academy
An alternative primary school and educational development centre on All Saints Road in St. John’s. It began in 2023 as an after-school program in founder Kisma Panthier-Jn Pierre’s own home, and now spans core subjects, alongside agriculture, art, coding, robotics, music, languages, physical education, and sustainability. The Academy keeps classes small (about 15 students) so that each child receives individual attention. The school also offers adult booster courses, financial literacy and entrepreneurship programs, and monthly community lectures, in keeping with its commitment to inclusive, equitable education.
King's Foundation Building Arts & Crafts Programme
A heritage-skills training partnership that sends Antiguan and Barbudan architects, engineers, tradespeople, and students to the United Kingdom for several weeks to learn the traditional crafts of historic building restoration. The intensive, fully funded training is delivered by The King’s Foundation, His Majesty King Charles III’s charity, in collaboration with the Antigua and Barbuda College of Advanced Studies. Participants gain hands-on experience in carpentry, masonry, lime work, heritage restoration, and climate-resilient construction, skills they can apply in their communities once they return home.
Medical & Health
Scrub Life Cares
A nonprofit organization dedicated to the menstrual, reproductive, and sexual health of girls and women in underserved communities across Antigua and Barbuda. Founded in 2020 by public-health professional Tanya Ambrose, Scrub Life Cares provides health education in primary and secondary schools, along with essential menstrual supplies many girls would otherwise go without. Through its annual “Grow With the Flo” wellness event and a community menstrual pantry, the organization helps ensure that every woman and girl can manage her health with knowledge, dignity, and support.
Religion
Freetown Baptist Church
A small Baptist church in the village of Freetown and the parish of St. Philip, on Antigua’s southeastern coast. Freetown holds a special place in the nation’s history as one of its first “free villages,” settled by formerly enslaved people following emancipation in 1834. Now in the midst of rebuilding, the church is working to restore its facilities so it can continue to serve as a place of worship and a source of support for the local community.
General Welfare
Antigua & Barbuda National Cadet Corps
A voluntary youth organization for young men and women ages 12 to 19. As part of the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force, its training instills discipline, loyalty, leadership, punctuality, and good citizenship, inspiring young people to become model citizens. Cadets get training to become Sea Cadets, Infantry Cadets, or Air Cadets. The organization also has a marching and steel band and a community outreach arm. Cadets collected and delivered care packages during the Covid-19 pandemic. They have also rallied regional disaster relief for fellow cadets.
Antigua Spay & Neuter Clinic
Good Humans 268
A nonprofit incorporated in 2023 that combines caring for the environment with creating opportunities for people with disabilities. It has placed collection bins in more than 80 schools and diverted over a million items from the landfill. It also runs beach clean-ups, leads disability-rights awareness campaigns, and has represented the island at international forums on climate and youth leadership. Backed by a Global Environment Facility grant, its work supports several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and a simple creed: be a good steward, be a Good Human.