| Description | Contains reports, correspondence, and papers concerning funding for Jamaica Save the Children Fund programmes, and later Save the Children UK programmes, including a Street Children Programme, a Social Welfare Programme, and a Marginalised Youth Programme. |
| Administrative History | Allocations: 1939-1945, 1948, 1975-1993; programme spending in 1993/94, 1994/95; see later annual reports for any subsequent allocations.
In 1924, Save the Children (SCF) made a donation for orphan and destitute children in Jamaica. In 1938 SCF's Child Protection Committee investigated the condition of children on the island, and Una Marson, a former member of the Committee, started the Jamaica Save the Children Fund. In 1939, SCF-UK gave a grant to Jamaica SCF and in 1941 a nursery school and play centre was funded with UK grant money. The Jamaican SCF at the same time made a donation to the work of SCF-UK. Dr Harold Moody, a Jamaican doctor who was a Council member between 1942 and 1947, was influential in getting SCF-UK to aid the work in Jamaica. Support for the work in Jamaica included hurricane relief in 1944. At the same time, SCF-UK was able to advise on the setting up of a child welfare library in Kingston. Following the general secretary's visit in 1946, SCF-UK, in conjunction with Jamaica SCF, built a play centre which was named after Eglantyne Jebb. Miss Harley, who had previously undertaken a survey of nursery education in Italy, carried out a similar one in Jamaica. Grants, generally quite small, were given to SCF Jamaica during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
SCF-UK established a programme in Jamaica in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Grants were given for a Jamaica Street Children project and pre-school education. In the 1990s projects included Social Work Programme, Marginalised Youth projects, and support for the Parenting Education Programme [PEP] run by Save the Children Jamaica. and the Social Welfare Programme. SCF closed its programme in 2001. |