New Hope Primary School in White House, Westmoreland, recently welcomed a significant addition to its facilities in the form of a major water purification machine. This new installation, made possible through a partnership with the Sandals.
Sandals Foundation Ambassador Samantha McPherson (left) and teen volunteer Kayla Farquharson plant timber trees as part of conservation efforts to commemorate Earth Day 2019 in Jamaica. (PHOTO: SRI)
EXUMA, BAHAMAS As organizations around the world mobilize their networks to commemorate Earth Day on April 22, Sandals Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Sandals Resorts International (SRI), is intensifying its Caribbean conservation efforts by committing to plant 10,000 trees by June 2022.
The effort forms part of a wider Caribbean Tree Planting Project coordinated by the Caribbean Philanthropic Alliance in collaboration with Trees That Feed Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative and other partners to plant one million trees across 14 Caribbean countries by June next year.