DESSO Foundation
DESSO is an organization founded to provide scholarships to deserving youths in and around the Treasure Beach community in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. While there is public education in Jamaica, students at all levels (Basic, Primary, Secondary and University) are required to purchase books, uniforms, pay for their own transportation and pay school fees. These costs can often be prohibitively expensive for the families, resulting in bright, motivated young people having to drop out of school early, or only go occasionally (significantly inhibiting their ability to succeed).
DESSO is a collaboration of Jamaican and American concerned parties interested in lifting up the Treasure Beach community and surrounding areas by helping as many of these youths as possible attend school on a regular basis. Treasure Beach is a very special community on the south coast of Jamaica. It is comprised of 9 districts, and is primarily a fishing and farming area, with a push for very authentic, small-scale community-based tourism.
Vision
To provide highly-motivated individuals of Treasure Beach, Jamaica and surrounding areas with support and resources to achieve their dreams and build better futures for themselves and their community in order to affect lasting change.
Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Founders
Meet the people who founded DESSO.
Derrick
Eve
Susie
Sarah
Oshane
And our Advisory Committee members…
Aidan
Audra
Charles
Dennis
Jennifer
Kevin “Smurf”
O’neil
Pam
Phoenia
