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	Welcome to the Friends of Jamaica Website! Friends of Jamaica has a lot of exciting opportunities to assist Peace Corps Volunteers, their communities and projects. Returned volunteers and others interested in assisting Jamaica can read our latest newsletter to see how they can help. Please don't forget to donate to or join Friends of Jamaica. This Spring FOJ worked with the Jamaican Ministry of Education to review proposals and offer critical feedback to more than a dozen school principals who participated in a grant-writing workshop. As a result, we are in the process of assisting two schools to create a sustainable school breakfast program that ensures every child in the school has two meals a day. These breakfast programs were begun by a USAID & Jamaican Ministry of Grants. Breakfast programs dramatically improved attendance and achievement in these schools. Now schools are working on creating sustainable breakfast programs through grants, business, and alumni groups. FOJ assistance will allow two schools to continue and expand these programs. Many other grants were worthy of funding, but beyond our current scope: Windsor Castle wants to transform their kitchen into a skills lab to expand feeding programs for schoolers and train parents & community members in cooking, nutrition, and business skills. Jacks Hill Primary wants assistance in building a computer lab for schoolers and parents to learn ICT skill. Chester Castle applied to put up partitions. Our Treasury is currently at $2,200 so we are setting a short-term goal to triple our fundraising to $6,600. Thank you for all you do to help volunteers and Jamaicans. If you are interested in helping to fundraise for a particular project, contact us at via the email address president at servejamaica.org and we will help coordinate a giving campaign. Please renew your membership or make a donation to assist in these projects. Remember, all funds sent to FRIENDS OF JAMAICA are tax deductible. View the latest FOJ Newsletter from Summer 2008 (200K Adobe pdf) or read the Previous newsletter FOJ Newsletter from Spring 2008 (300K pdf).